Research Catalog

Title

Life in the world's oceans.

Publication

• Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Todd, Sean K.
• Teaching Company, publisher.

Description

5 videodiscs (15 hr.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

"For thousands of centuries, humans lived near the ocean, wandered right up to its edge, and turned back to the relative safety of the known land. Even when we invented ships and the very bravest among us sailed out, our fears and imaginations took over. What creatures could be living in the unknowable darkness, the bottomless depths? Giant worms, microorganisms that eat metal, faceless fish, giant sea spiders? Marine life is even more otherworldly and fantastical than we ever imagined, and Life in the World's Oceans brings you face to face with these exciting creatures. From the phytoplankton that can only float at the whim of wind and currents to the gray whale that migrates 16,000 kilometers each year, you will be amazed at the variety of life in the seas and what we have only recently learned about its biology, evolution, life cycles, and adaptations"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

The great courses. Science. Biology

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.

Subject

• Marine biology
• Marine ecology
• Marine animals
• Oceanography
• Ocean
• Marine Biology
• Oceanography
• marine biology
• oceanography

Genre/Form

• Lecture
• lectures.
• Lectures.
• Instructional films.
• Educational films.
• Nonfiction films.
• Conférences.
• Films éducatifs.
• Films autres que de fiction.

Note

• Title from disc surface.
• 30 lectures (30 min. each).
• Course No. 1725.
• Transcript book 1: lecture 1-15 -- transcript book 2. lectures 16-30.
• Accompanied by the course guidebook of the same title: Life in the world's oceans / Sean K. Todd, College of the Atlantic. Published by the Great Courses; ©The Teaching Company, 2018.
• "Professor Sean K. Todd, College of the Atlantic"--Course guidebook cover and DVD container.

Bibliography (note)

• Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 346-360).

System Details (note)

• DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC.

Language (note)

• In English ; closed-captioned.

Contents

disc 1. Water: the source of life -- Ocean currents and why they matter -- The origin and diversity of ocean life -- Beaches, estuaries, and coral reefs -- Life in polar and deepwater environments -- Phytoplankton and other autotrophs -- disc 2. Invertebrate life in the ocean -- An overview of marine vertebrates -- Fish: the first vertebrates -- Marine megavertebrates and their fisheries -- Sharks and rays -- Marine reptiles and birds -- disc 3. The evolutionary history of whales -- The taxonomy of Marine mammals -- How animals adapt to ocean temperatures -- Mammalian swimming and buoyancy -- Adaptations for diving deep in the ocean -- The importance of sound to ocean life -- disc 4. Food and foraging among marine mammals -- Marine mammal interactions with fisheries -- Breeding and reproduction in a large ocean -- Behavior and sociality in marine mammals -- Marine mammal distribution around the globe -- Intelligence in marine mammals -- disc 5. The charismatic megavertebrates -- The great whale hunt -- The evolution of whale research -- Marine mammal strandings -- The urban ocean: human impact on marine life -- Our role in the ocean's future.

ISBN

• 9781629975054
• 1629975052

LCCN

9781629975054

OCLC

• on1023657973
• 1023657973
• SCSB-9103088

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library