Antarctic Penguins; a Study of Their Social Habits
The book Antarctic Penguins; a Study of Their Social Habits was written by author G Murray George Murray Levick Here you can read free online of Antarctic Penguins; a Study of Their Social Habits book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Antarctic Penguins; a Study of Their Social Habits a good or bad book?
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Their quickness of perception is shown very well as they land on the ice. If the surface is composed of snow, and so affords them a good foothold, they throw their legs well forward and land on their feet, as shown in Figs. 41 and 42, but should they find themselves landing on a slippery ice-surface, they throw themselves forward, landing on their breasts in the tobogganing position as shown in Fig. 43. The Adelies dive very beautifully. We did not see this at first, before the sea-ice had gone... out, because to enter the water they had only to drop 82 DOMESTIC LIFE a few inches, but later, when entering from the ice terraces, we constantly saw them making the most graceful dives. At the place where they most often went in, a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink. When they had succeeded in pushing one of their number over, all would crane their necks over the edge (Fig.
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