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Author Kelsey, Elin

Title Watching Giants : the Secret Lives of Whales
Published CA : University of California Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Extreme Motherhood; 2. A Sea of Milk; 3. Looking for Whales in All the Wrong Places; 4. Resident Aliens?; 5. How to Make a Really Rich Sea; 6. Popular Mechanics; 7. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Smartest of Them All?; 8. Building Nets from Bubbles andOther Mysterious Humpback Whale Talents57; 9. Do Baby Sperm WhalesSuck Milk through Their Noses?; 10. Deep Culture; 11. What's the Use of Granny?; 12. Dolphin Snatchers; 13. Friendly Mothers, Friendly Calves?; 14. The War on Fish; 15. Why Blue Whales Gotta Be Big
16. What You Can See by Listening17. What You Can Learn from the Dead; 18. Let's Talk about Sex, Baby; 19. Missing Meat; 20. Shifting Scale; Notes; Index
Summary Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from her rich, often humorous, everyday experiences as a mother, a woman, and a scientist, takes us to the incredibly productive waters of the Gulf of California and beyond, to oceans around the world. Kelsey brings us along as she talks to leading cetacean researchers and marine ecologists about their intriguing discoveries. We encounter humpback wh
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Whales -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
NATURE -- Animals -- General.
Whales
Pacific Ocean -- Gulf of California
Form Electronic book
Author White, Doc
Gohier, Francois
ISBN 9780520942219
0520942213