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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hal Whitehead |
ISBN: | 0226895173 9780226895178 0226895181 9780226895185 |
OCLC Number: | 51242162 |
Description: | xxiii, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The sperm whale: an animal of extremes -- The oceanic habitat of the sperm whale -- The sperm whale: on the move through an ocean -- Sperm whale populations -- Sperm whale behavior and vocalizations -- Sperm whale societies -- Sperm whale cultures -- Social and cultural evolution in the ocean -- Sperm whales and the future -- Appendix: How we study the sperm whale. |
Responsibility: | Hal Whitehead. |
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Abstract:
With this volume, Hal Whitehead gives us a clearer picture of the ecology and social life of sperm whales than we have ever had before. Of interest to animal behaviourists, conservationists, biologists, as well as marine mammalogists.
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