Journeys with emperors : tracking the world's most extreme penguin

Journeys with emperors Tracking the world's most extreme penguin

Gerald L. Kooyman

Book - 2023

"The 2005 Luc Jacquet documentary March of the Penguins won an Oscar for its depiction of emperor penguins' fifty-kilometer trek over sea ice to their breeding grounds. While such a trek may be common for emperors breeding in colonies around the Antarctic perimeter, it is not the case for the largest colonies in the Ross Sea. To understand emperor penguins here, we must follow them on four critical journeys, each with its own challenges and hazards. In this compelling and accessible book, comparative biologist Jerry Kooyman and writer and fellow Antarctic explorer Jim Mastro offer a detailed explanation of all four journeys. The first person to live in isolation for months to study these remarkable, deep-diving birds, Kooyman pres...ents new stories and scientific descriptions with never-before-seen photographs and videos from the very edge. Kooyman has spent over two decades voyaging to the Antarctic and studying these penguins, and he is known among his fellow researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as "the penguin guy." With this book, readers will have a chance to explore alongside Kooyman and Mastro-and understand in new ways the lives of these remarkable and supremely adapted birds"--

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Subjects
Emperor penguin > Antarctica.
Emperor penguin > Behavior.
Emperor penguin.
Antarctica.
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Gerald L. Kooyman (author)
Other Authors
Jim Mastro, 1953- (author), Jessica Ulrika Meir (writer of foreword)
Physical Description
xxii, 184 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780226824383
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. A Meeting with Emperor Penguins
  • Chapter 2. The Kings of Saint Andrews Bay
  • Chapter 3. The Seven Colonies of the Ross Sea
  • Chapter 4. The Emperors of Cape Washington
  • Chapter 5. Kings and Emperors in One Year
  • Chapter 6. The Commuter Journey
  • Chapter 7. The Fledging Journey
  • Chapter 8. The Pre-molt Journey
  • Chapter 9. The Post-molt Journey
  • Chapter 10. How Do They Do It?
  • Chapter 11. Predator as Prey
  • Chapter 12. Climate, Conservation, and Consumption
  • Acknowledgments
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Index
  • Plates follow page 96.
Review by Booklist Review

Kooyman, professor emeritus at Scripps Oceanographic Institute and coauthor of Penguins: The Animal Answer Guide (2013), recounts his years researching the lives of emperor penguins on the Ross Sea Ice in Antarctica. Kooyman's groundbreaking research tracked these birds (the largest of their species) throughout their life cycles, including pioneering extended observation near their breeding sites in the dark of the Antarctic winter. He also devised ways to discover what emperor penguins do underwater, first by designing a device that attaches to the birds and records the depth and length of their dives, and then by designing a cage that allows divers safe observation of the previously unseen underwater activity of emperor penguins, their predators, and their prey. Informative sidebars, graphs, and charts explain technical terms in clear language. An annotated bibliography and gorgeous photos round out this treat of a book, which describes what it was like to live among emperor penguins and the challenges and rewards of research in the Antarctic. This book will have armchair travelers, penguin lovers, Antarctic enthusiasts, and science readers rejoicing.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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