Penguins in the Desert - 9780870719240

Penguins in the DesertAuthor(s): Eric Wagner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oregon State University, United States\nImprint: Oregon State University\nISBN-13: 9780870719240, 978-0870719240\nSynopsis\nMost of us wouldnt think to look for penguins in a hot desert, but every year along a windswept edge of coastal Patagonia, hundreds of thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to rear their young at Punta Tombo, Argentina. It is the largest penguin colony in the world outside of Antarctica, and for the past three decades, biologist Dee Boersma has followed them there.\n\nEric Wagner joined her team for six months in 2008, and in Penguins in the Desert, he chronicles that season in the remarkable lives of both the Magellanic penguins of Punta Tombo and the scientists who track their every move. For Boersma, the penguins are ecosystem sentinels. At the colonys peak, more than a million birds bred there, but now less than half as many do. In confronting this fact, Boersma tackles some of the?