10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Artists rendition of Inkayacu paracasensis There are 17 living species of penguins, which make up their own Linnean family (Spheniscidae), which is the only family in the order Sphenisciformes. You may think of penguins as cold-adapted and they are, but there are penguins living in temperate and tropical areas as well.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Fifty pages have been updated with new text or photos, but what Donna said, in her review of the first edition , is still apt: the photographs are “amongst the most stunning I’ve ever seen.”
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10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 14, 2012
We loved seeing penguins, whales, polar bears, and wolves. Truly a series for any animal lover, but more than that, it’s an amazing look at our planet. Science at the Ends of the Earth – An examination of the remarkable scientific work being performed at the South Pole. Some of it is quiet funny as well.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Apparently, species like Sand Martins and Emperor Penguins develop distinct parent-child vocalizations. She writes, “Broadly, I am interested in the evolutionary mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation and population divergence in animals, primarily birds.”
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they can? 2 PIERSMA, T.,
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