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Penguins in the Desert /

"Every year, hundreds of thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to breed at Punta Tombo, Argentina, along a windswept edge of the Patagonian desert, and for more than three decades, biologist Dee Boersma has joined them. Penguins in the Desert follows both the penguins and Boersma through a se...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wagner, Eric Loudon (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Prologue: Penguins in the desert
  • 1. In Patagonia
  • 2. The Point
  • 3. Hurricane Dee
  • 4. The Food Web
  • 5. Hatch
  • 6. Storm
  • 7. Hunger
  • 8. Watching Seabirds at Sea
  • 9. Other People's Penguins
  • 10. The Penguin Coast
  • 11. Passages
  • 12. The Giant Petrel
  • 13. Waiting for Turbo
  • Epilogue: The Bleak Land.