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Penguin Biology [Hardcover]

Lloyd S. Davis (Editor), John T. Darby (Editor)


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012206335X 978-0122063350 September 11, 1990 1
Penguin Biology is the first broad-based collection of biological and ecological studies of these unique birds to be published since 1975. Topics have since become broad ecological hypotheses, not species-specific descriptions, and new technology has taken observations into the oceanic depths. Penguin Biology shows new techniques and the applications mad of them in contemporary biological and evolutionary theory.
Penguin Biology is an invaluable reference for ornithologists, animal behaviorists, animal physiologists, marine zoologists, marine ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and Antarctic researchers.

Major topics covered include
* Breeding, feeding, and foraging
* Behavior and evolution
* Energetics and physiology
* New fossil material

Editorial Reviews

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"The papers included in this review volume represent a valuable expansion of presentations from the First International Conference on Penguins... This is an important book. It is of value to those interested in penguins, but more generally to those interested in the processes involved. Each chapter is loaded with information, much of it gleaned under difficult field conditions."
--THE AUK

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Penguin Biology is the first broad-based collection of biological and ecological studies of these unique birds to be published since 1975. Topics have since become broad ecological hypotheses, not species-specific descriptions, and new technology has taken observations into the oceanic depths. Penguin Biology shows new techniques and the applications mad of them in contemporary biological and evolutionary theory.
Major topics covered include
* Breeding, feeding, and foraging
* Behavior and evolution
* Energetics and physiology
* New fossil material
Penguin Biology is an invaluable reference for ornithologists, animal behaviorists, animal physiologists, marine zoologists, marine ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and Antarctic researchers.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 467 pages
  • Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (September 11, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 012206335X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0122063350
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,526,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
"The first International Conference on Penguins, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, 16-19 August 1988, could not have been better placed or timed." Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fasting penguins, sodium influx rates, other pygoscelids, daily body mass loss, traveling dives, foraging penguins, fossil penguins, southern rockhopper, manchot royal, molting penguins, new radiotelemetry techniques, light intensity cycle, little blue penguins, subantarctic penguins, flipper spread, agonistic repertoires, hatch asynchrony, water influx rates, feather synthesis, eudyptid penguins, crested penguins, chrysolophus schlegeli, first incubation shift, fasting emperor penguins, chrysocome moseleyi
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Georgia, New Zealand, Academic Press, New York, Marion Island, South Africa, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Macquarie Island, Punta Tombo, Cape Bird, Kerguelen Islands, Prince Edwards, South Island, King George Island, Penguin Biology Copyright, South Orkney Islands, Oxford Univ, Ross Sea, Falkland Islands, Ile de la Possession, University of Otago, Polar Biol, Cape Town, Phillip Island
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