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Among penguins : a bird man in Antarctica /

The year he graduated from college, twenty-two-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a three months' supply of frozen food. His subjects: more than a quarter million penguins. Compact, industrious, and approachable, the Ad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strycker, Noah K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Whiteout
  • Why?
  • South
  • Arrival
  • McMurdo
  • Coffee house
  • A very brief history of penguins
  • Ice figure
  • Visitor
  • Home
  • Crozier
  • Snowcraft
  • Bucketheads
  • Flying machines
  • Touchdown
  • Among penguins
  • Area M
  • Metropolis
  • Man hauling
  • Life of a penguin
  • Wrangling
  • Penguin science
  • Schedule
  • Never trust a penguin
  • Gap year
  • Emperors
  • Roughed up
  • Blondie and Blackie
  • Seawatching
  • Satellite tags
  • Thanksgiving
  • Young birders
  • Stranded
  • The chase
  • Penguin traffic
  • Christmas
  • Heat wave
  • Bird bums
  • Banding
  • Aftermath.