WHALES & DOLPHINS IN QUESTION

by Mead Jg

This comprehensive book is a collective response to thousands of letters and phone calls received annually by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Students, teachers, and scientists all have amazingly varied questions about whales and dolphins, and the most revealing inquiries are presented here with detailed answers.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Alia]

I actually learned a lot from this

[Rageofanath]

This book literally has every answer to almost any question you can think of about Whales or Dolphins. While there has been a lot of research done in the past decade, most of the answers are still solid for the lay reader. Some of them may be a bit basic for a person already well read in biology (What is a cetacean?) but for those that find that question mundane, there's questions like "Do cetaceans communicate by anything except sound?", "Why do some cetaceans have/lack a dorsal fin?", "What is the purpose of the throat grooves?", "How difficult is it to pursue a career in marine mammal science?", and full species accounts.

If your question isn't answered by this book, chances are the research hasn't been done to adequately answer it anyway.

[Clare]

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