Les Manchots de Mandela. Et autres récits océaniques. David Grémillet

DAVID GRÉMILLET LES MANCHOTS DE MANDELA

ET AUTRES RÉCITS OCÉANIQUES

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11.5 × 21.7 cm 224 pages 5 maps and 10 black and white illustrations softback october 2021 estimated retail price: 21 €

An oceanographer at the cnrs, and director of the Centre d’études biologiques de Chizé, David Grémillet is first and foremost a world-renowned seabirds expert. He has travelled the globe to study them at every latitude and is one of the pioneers of the use of miniature geolocators to track birds. By the same author: Daniel Pauly, un océan de combats (éditions Wildproject, 2019).

Et autres récits océaniques MANDELA’S PENGUINS

And other oceanic tales

David Grémillet

David Grémillet is a French biologist who specialises in seabirds. He travels the world’s oceans to study the physiology and behaviour of a wide variety of birds with the help of cutting-edge technologies. From the penguins of the Antarctic to the little auks of Greenland, the terns of the Maldives and the puffins of the Marseille archipelago, he attaches miniature tracking devices to birds to explore in a non-invasive way the mysteries of their extraordinary ability to adapt to extreme climates, to track them in their mammoth migrations across the oceans, and to better understand how they interact with the marine ecosystem. The amazing capacities of these bundles of feathers seem to defy belief, but with the author as our guide we are taken into their inner world and, though confined to the shoreline ourselves, are afforded a glimpse of what life is like beyond the distant horizon. Sadly, the picture is not always rosy because pollution and above all industrial fishing are wreaking havoc, and seabirds are among the primary victims. David Grémillet has a real gift for storytelling on multiple levels, depicting the tragi-comic adventures of the scientist out in the field, revealing fascinating facts about the many species of seabird, each unique in their own way, and also bringing home to us the heavy toll that geopolitics and our rampant economies are exacting on marine environments across the planet.