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Albatrosses /
Albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the 'Roaring Forties' and the 'Furious Fifties', otherwise known as the Southern Ocean. The single most distinctive characteristic of the albatrosses is that they ride storms. Aside from a few close r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collingwood, Vic. :
CSIRO,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Australian natural history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the 'Roaring Forties' and the 'Furious Fifties', otherwise known as the Southern Ocean. The single most distinctive characteristic of the albatrosses is that they ride storms. Aside from a few close relatives among the petrels and shearwaters, they are the only animals (of any kind) that do this. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 139 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-136) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780643096189 0643096183 1283155087 9781283155083 9786613155085 661315508X 0643098526 9780643098527 |