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قراءة كتاب Antarctic Penguins: A Study of Their Social Habits
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Antarctic Penguins: A Study of Their Social Habits
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ANTARCTIC PENGUINS
A STUDY OF THEIR SOCIAL HABITS
BY
DR. G. MURRAY LEVICK, R.N.
ZOOLOGIST TO THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION [1910–1913]
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
First Published March 1914
Second Impression May 1914
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1914
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| PART I | |
| THE FASTING PERIOD | 17 |
| PART II | |
| DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE ADÉLIE PENGUIN | 51 |
| APPENDIX | 119 |
| PART III | |
| McCORMICK'S SKUA GULL | 125 |
| A SHORT NOTE ON EMPEROR PENGUINS | 134 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| “Occasionally an unaccountable ‘broodiness’ seemed to take possession of the penguins” | Frontispiece |
| To face p. | |
| An angry Adélie | 2 |
| Dozing | 4 |
| Waking up, stretching, and yawning | 4 |
| Pack-ice | 8 |
| Heavy seas in the autumn | 8 |
| “throw up masses of ice” | 10 |
| “which are frozen into a compact mass” | 10 |
| “and later, form the beautiful terraces of the ice-foot” | 14 |
| Penguins at the rookery | 14 |
| In the foreground a mated pair have begun to build | 20 |
| The rookery beginning to fill up | 22 |
| “The hens would keep up this peck-pecking hour after hour” | 24 |
| An affectionate couple | 24 |
| “Side by side … nests of very big stones and nests of very small stones” | 26 |
| On the march to the rookery | 28 |
| Part of the line of approaching birds, several miles in length | 30 |
| Arriving at the rookery | 32, 34 |
| Adélies arriving | 36 |
| A cock carrying a stone to his nest | 36 |
| Several interesting things are taking place here | 38 |
| Three cocks in rivalry | 40 |
| Two of the cocks squaring up for battle | 40 |