How are penguins similar to humans? A new book offers an illustrated peek into their social habits
Sept. 18, 2014
Want to know more about penguins'
private lives? One key fact: They don't all hang out on the ice. In the
new book "Penguins" (Princeton University Press: $35), wildlife
photographers and natural history writers Tui De Roy, Mark Jones and
Julie Cornthwaite describe the social habits of the 18 species of
penguins.
Illustrated with 400 photographs of the flightless birds
frolicking on the land and in the sea, the book highlights the ways that
penguins often seem similar to humans in their temper, gait and stance.
Though people tend to associate penguins with cold and ice, most
species reside, in fact, in milder climates—with one, the Galapagos
penguin, even living in the tropics.
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