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Pages: 442
Authors: Roger Payne
Categories: Cetacea
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Taking readers on a journey across the spectrum of life to discover the answers to the larger questions of life on Earth, an eminent field biologist addresses a
Narwhals
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Todd McLeish
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-18 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by glob
Sperm Whales
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Hal Whitehead
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Famed in story as "the great leviathans," sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creatu
The Walking Whales
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: J. G. M. Thewissen
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"A ... first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivor
The Sounding of the Whale
Language: en
Pages: 824
Authors: D. Graham Burnett
Categories: History
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Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolve