Penguins
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2010
212 pages
978-1-4081-2820-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks at the penguins - an enduringly popular and fascinating group of birds.
Penguins are associated in the public consciousness with the icecap of the south pole, and we are all familiar with images of male Emperor Penguins clustered together through the long night of the Antarctic winter as they incubate the single egg on their feet. However, several species occur in warmer regions further north, in southern Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand and even the Galapagos. All are flightless but are beautifully adapted swimmers and divers, and many are able to travel at high speeds on dry land by means of spectacular leaps and belly-slides.
Most species breed in close-knit colonies and exhibit a complex system of social behaviour. This book looks at all aspects of penguin evolution, biology, ecology and sociobiology, as well as conservation issues affecting the group. It is illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs, and has a full-colour photographic section.
Penguins are associated in the public consciousness with the icecap of the south pole, and we are all familiar with images of male Emperor Penguins clustered together through the long night of the Antarctic winter as they incubate the single egg on their feet. However, several species occur in warmer regions further north, in southern Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand and even the Galapagos. All are flightless but are beautifully adapted swimmers and divers, and many are able to travel at high speeds on dry land by means of spectacular leaps and belly-slides.
Most species breed in close-knit colonies and exhibit a complex system of social behaviour. This book looks at all aspects of penguin evolution, biology, ecology and sociobiology, as well as conservation issues affecting the group. It is illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs, and has a full-colour photographic section.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-2820-6 (9781408128206)
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Lloyd Spencer Davis | Martin Renner
Penguins
Book
11/2003
T & AD Poyser
€94.28
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Persons
Lloyd Spencer Davis is an award-winning author and filmmaker and Stuart Professor of Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He a world authority on penguins, with academic honours such as the Fulbright Fellowship, the Anzac Fellowship and a Prince and Princess of Wales Science Award. His book Penguin: a season in the life of the Adelie penguin won the PEN Best First Book Award for Nonfiction and The Plight of the Penguin won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. His book Looking for Darwin won the CLL Writer's Award and was Runner Up as the New Zealand Travel Book of the Year. His documentary Meet the Real Penguins won twelve major international awards.
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Penguin Evolution: A Historical Perspective
3 Penguins Today
4 Living in Two Worlds
5 A Place to Breed
6 Mate Selection and Courtship
7 Parental Investment
8 Moult and Migration
9 Conservation
Notes
References
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Penguin Evolution: A Historical Perspective
3 Penguins Today
4 Living in Two Worlds
5 A Place to Breed
6 Mate Selection and Courtship
7 Parental Investment
8 Moult and Migration
9 Conservation
Notes
References
