Watching Giants : the Secret Lives of Whales.
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 experie...
| Основен автор: | Kelsey, Elin. |
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| Други автори: | White, Doc., Gohier, Francois. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
CA :
University of California Press,
2008.
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Print version::
Watching Giants : The Secret Lives of Whales. |
Съдържание:
- 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.