Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the emperor penguin, with descriptions of how female and male penguins cooperate during the coldest winters on Earth to preserve their eggs.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778706304
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 32
View: 820
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Author: HSP
Publisher: Hmh School
ISBN: 9780153293351
Category: English language
Page: 208
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Probable factors responsible for these trends include climatic variables ,
subsistence and sport hunting , egg gathering , and regulation of ... Harvest of
both emperors and their eggs is prohibited by the Y - K Delta Goose
Management Plan .
Author: United States. Minerals Management Service
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Category: Continental shelf
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THE MIRACULOUS EGG 69 vent the whole truth from reaching the city at once . It
was at this period that a miraculous hen laid a miraculous egg on the High Altar
of the Cathedral bearing in raised characters the words “ Death to the French .
Author: Laure Junot Abrantès (duchesse d')
Publisher:
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Category: France
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Interactions of unemployed birds with eggs and laying adults Few interactions
between egg - laying birds and other ... young False Incubation : In captivity ,
many individuals attempted to incubate chunks of ice the size of an Emperor egg
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Author: Ann Elizabeth Bowles
Publisher:
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Category: Emperor penguin
Page: 402
View: 191
Maybe more, likely less. Lindsay McCrae has - and this is his wonderful and frank story.' - Chris Packham When the BBC asked BAFTA-winning cameraman Lindsay McCrae to go to Antarctica to film emperor penguins he was thrilled.
Author: Lindsay McCrae
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 152932548X
Category: Nature
Page: 256
View: 117
But whatever happens , the first concern of the male emperor is for his egg . As
Bernard Stonehouse put it : “ Birds have been known to fall over small precipices
, roll down snowy slopes , trip over rocks , tumble heavily on slippery bare ice , or
...
Author: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671020842
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 272
View: 261
Then , in the gloom , the first emperor eggs begin popping out , one to each
couple , to be held on their feet . At almost one metre tall , the emperor is the giant
of the penguin family – with proportionately the smallest feet . Little feet leave little
...
Author: Creina Bond
Publisher:
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Category: Antarctica
Page: 175
View: 311
THE POOR GIRL WHO KNEW MORE | He went out , he ploughed ; and when the
emTHAN THE EMPEROR . peror and ... a little stick , awoke her father , and said
to Then the emperor gave the beggar thirty | him , - eggs , saying , – “ Take this ...
Author: Oliver Optic
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On the return of the mission , he sent envoys with it , that they might see the
extent and power of China . He sent with them , as presents to the Emperor , eggs
of the great bird of the country , and a curiously deformed man from Samarkand .
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher:
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Category: Asia
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They have had a very enjoyable time , no low temperatures & successful results ,
bringing back the one thing everybody wished for , an Emperor Penguin's egg .
They found it in the little line of hummocks , where the Emperors roost , almost ...
Author: Reginald William Skelton
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category: Antarctica
Page: 232
View: 709
In the account of the breeding habits of the Emperor Penguin, I have stated that
the eggs are probably laid in the ... when the 'Belgica' first spent a winter in the
southern ice, there was no possibility of a fresh Emperor's egg finding its way to ...
Author: Lazarus Fletcher
Publisher:
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Category: Algae
Page: 457
View: 859
In contrast , based on the same analysis , the relative amount of penalbumin to
ovalbumin in Emperor egg - white was 1 to only 0.5 . One of the three following
possibilities , or any combination of them , could account for such differences ( a )
...
Author: Charles Yen-Kuang Ho
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Page: 218
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Nor is there reason to think the Emperor's egg could tell us more than the egg of
any other penguin ; for whether or not the Emperor is more primitive than the rest
, all are 99 per cent penguin and tell the same story which is , a penguin is a bird
...
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Category: United States
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