Albatrosses:
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Main Author: Lindsey, Terence (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Collingwood, Vic. CSIRO c2008
Series:Australian natural history series
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-136) and index
Acknowledgements; 1 Myth and legend; 2 The species; 3 The habitat (the Southern Ocean); 4 Food and foraging; 5 Flight; 6 Courtship; 7 The nesting cycle; 8 Human impacts; Appendix; Selected references; Index
Albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the 'Roaring Forties' and the 'Furious Fifties', otherwise known as the Southern Ocean. The single most distinctive characteristic of the albatrosses is that they ride storms. Aside from a few close relatives among the petrels and shearwaters, they are the only animals (of any kind) that do this
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 139 p.)
ISBN:0643096183
9780643096189

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