Penguins : the animal answer guide / Gerald L. Kooyman and Wayne Lynch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kooyman, Gerald L.

Contributor:

Lynch, Wayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penguins--Miscellanea.

Penguins.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Introducing Penguins""; ""What are penguins?""; ""Why are penguins important?""; ""Why should people care about penguins?""; ""How many kinds of penguins are there?""; ""What is the current classification of penguins?""; ""What characterizes the major groups of penguins?""; ""Why are there no penguins in the Northern Hemisphere?""; ""Where do penguins live?""; ""Are there fossil penguins?""; ""When did penguins first evolve?""; ""What is the oldest fossil penguin?""; ""What is the largest fossil penguin?""

""2 Form and Function""""What are the largest and smallest living penguins?""; ""What is the basic structure of penguins?""; ""What is the metabolism of a penguin?""; ""Do penguins have teeth?""; ""Do penguins sleep?""; ""Can penguins see color?""; ""Do penguins molt?""; ""Can penguins run?""; ""Why do penguins have flippers?""; ""Can penguins breathe under water?""; ""Do penguins need to drink?""; ""3 Penguin Colors""; ""Why are penguins black and white?""; ""What causes the different color patterns of penguins?""; ""What color are penguin feet?""; ""What color are a penguin�s eyes?""

""Do penguins� color patterns change as they grow?""""Do a penguin�s colors change from season to season?""; ""Is there much geographic color variation in a single penguin species?""; ""4 Penguin Behavior""; ""Are penguins social?""; ""Do penguins fight?""; ""Do penguins bite?""; ""How smart are penguins?""; ""Do penguins play?""; ""Do penguins talk?""; ""How do penguins avoid predators?""; ""5 Penguin Ecology""; ""Where do penguins sleep?""; ""Do penguins migrate?""; ""Are penguins good divers?""; ""How fast do penguins swim, and how fast can they swim?""

""Which regions have the most species of penguins?""""How do penguins survive the extreme cold?""; ""How do penguins survive the winter?""; ""Do penguins get too hot?""; ""Do penguins have enemies?""; ""Do penguins get sick?""; ""How can you tell if a penguin is sick?""; ""Are penguins good for the environment?""; ""6 Reproduction and Development""; ""How do penguins reproduce?""; ""Where do penguins lay their eggs?""; ""Does a penguin nest at the same time and in the same place every year?""; ""Do penguins nest only one time a year?""; ""How many eggs do penguins lay?""

""Are all hatchlings in a penguin nest full siblings?""""Are all penguins in a colony related to one another?""; ""How is the sex of a penguin determined?""; ""How long do penguins care for their young?""; ""How fast do penguins grow?""; ""How can you tell the age of a penguin?""; ""How long do penguins live?""; ""7 Food and Feeding""; ""What do penguins eat?""; ""Do penguins chew their food?""; ""How do penguins find food?""; ""Are any penguins scavengers?""; ""Do penguins ever store their food?""; ""8 Penguins and Humans""; ""Do people ever have pet penguins?""

""How do you take care of a pet penguin?""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-1052-4

OCLC:

861529096