The Plight of the Penguin
By Lloyd Spencer Davis, 112pp limpbound, Longacre Press, Dunedin 2001, RRP$39.95.
Lloyd Spencer Davis is an academic with an interest in popularising nature. A world authority on penguins, he’s also director of the world’s first university course in natural history film-making, at Otago. His book takes a graphic approach to the plight of penguins, with striking colour photographs, and some witty sketches, along with chatty panels under populist headings | like "Daddy’s Milk’, ‘Loony or Goony’ (evolutionary ancestors) and ‘Convergent Evolution: putting the auk into awkward’. The various species are displayed as a ‘Penguin Family Album’ Sexual selection is introduced with an anecdote of the author’s first discoveries in human biology in Confessions of a Window Cleaner. The jazzy text is set off by lines from popular musicians such as Split Enz and Pink Floyd. There’s a suprising amount of interesting and modern science disguised in this lively presentation.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 303, 1 February 2002, Page 44
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