Poles apart : why penguins and polar bears will never be neighbors /
Santa Claus frolicking with penguins and polar bears--do you know what's wrong with this picture? Actually, no penguin has ever lived at the North Pole, nor any polar bear at the South Pole. Using a wide range of disciplines from physics to geography to biology, award-winning science writer Ela...
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New York :
Viking,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Drifting apart : Gondwanaland and Eurasia
- Poles apart : summer and winter
- Mutual attraction : the magnetic poles
- The people : Inuit and None
- Never neighbors : penguins in the south
- Never neighbors : polar bears in the north
- Great races : first to see them
- Great races : first to claim them
- The poles today : lessons from the ice.