Research Catalog
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises
- Title
- Whales, dolphins, and porpoises / consultant editor, Mark Carwardine.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Checkmark Books, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Carwardine, Mark.
- Description
- 240 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 32 cm
- Summary
- Explores the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and feeding habits of these underwater mammals.
- Subject
- Cetacea
- Note
- "A Weldon Owen production"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Whales of the World -- Origin of the Whale / R. Ewan Fordyce -- Kinds of Whales / Lawrence G. Barnes -- Baleen Whales / William H. Dawbin -- Toothed Whales / Lawrence G. Barnes -- Distribution and Ecology / Peter Corkeron -- Whales up Close -- Marine Mammal / M.M. Bryden -- Whale Anatomy / R. Ewan Fordyce -- Remarkable Sensory World / Robert J. Morris -- Reproduction and Growth / M.M. Bryden -- Cetacean Intelligence / M.M. Bryden and Peter Corkeron -- Social Behavior / Peter Corkeron -- Whales and People -- Lore and Legend of Whales / Ruth Thompson -- Whaling Industry / Richard Harrison -- Whales and Dolphins in Captivity / Mark Carwardine -- Encounters with Whales / Robert J. Morris and Peter Gill -- Whale Strandings / Margaret Klinowska -- Checklist of Living Cetaceans.
- ISBN
- 0816039917
- 9780816039913
- LCCN
- 99461832
- OCLC
- ocm41281381
- 41281381
- SCSB-766930
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library