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Antarctic Penguins: A Study of Their Social Habits

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

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