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  230809200519
  152120080518
  140709011420

Hint: Letters.



much more natural answers "petrel"

    160520180512
nor "fulmar"

    062112130118
work


white southern giant

antarctica


Would you mind breaking down how did you arrive to that conclusion?


The numbers are each in pairs and each pair doesn't exceed 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). a = 01, z = 26. Convert the number pairs to letters, you get

  whites
  outher
  ngiant


simple A=1 index decodes to WHITESOUTHERNGIANT.


Stuck on this one as well.




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