Penguin biology /

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. Pengu...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Davis, Lloyd Spencer, 1954- (Editor), Darby, John T. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1990.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 467 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1299535739
9781299535732
9780080571065
0080571069