Record details

• ISBN: 9781554072743
• ISBN: 1554072743
• ISBN: 9781554073344
• Physical Description: 175 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
• Edition: [2nd edition]
• Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. ; Firefly Books, [2007]
• Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-168) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: Penguin Passion 11 -- Chapter 1 Blueprint of a Penguin 17 -- Outliving the Dinosaurs 17 -- Basic Penguin 22 -- Penguins on the Move 26 -- All in the Family 31 -- Chapter 2 Penguin Haunts 37 -- From the Equator to Antarctica 37 -- Taking the Heat and Beating the Chill 39 -- Penguin Impostors 45 -- Chapter 3 Sex and the Single Penguin 49 -- Breeding Season 49 -- Truth in Advertising 52 -- Fidelity, Divorce and the Penguin Kiss 56 -- Crowd-Crazy Colonies 64 -- Chapter 4 Family Life 73 -- Egg-Citing Details 73 -- Eggnappers and Ice Borers 82 -- Get Cracking 89 -- Chicks Under Foot and Flipper 94 -- More Chick Chatter 104 -- Starving Kings 111 -- Chapter 5 Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 115 -- Southern Seafood 115 -- Sea Hunting 121 -- Lions and Leopards 133 -- Chapter 6 Cycle Ends 141 -- Graduating Class 141 -- Big Meltdown 147 -- Appendix 1 Penguins of the World 154 -- Map: The Southern Hemisphere 161 -- Appendix 2 Penguins and People 162.

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Subject:

Penguins.
Penguins > Pictorial works.

Genre:

Illustrated works.