Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished by the sight of 25 right whales. Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlantic right whale was extinct or nearly so. The sightings electrified the research community, spurring a quarter century of exploration, which is documented here.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (566 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780674265196
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6609522
DDC:
599.5/273
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Marine Species -- Abbreviations -- 1. Right Whales in the Urban Ocean -- 2. Near-Annihilation of a Species: Right Whaling in the North Atlantic -- 3. Right Whales Tell Their Own Stories: The Photo-Identification Catalog -- 4. Surveying for Discovery, Science, and Management -- 5. Enormous Carnivores, Microscopic Food, and a Restaurant That's Hard to Find -- 6. High Investment, Low Return: The Strange Case of Reproduction in Eubalaena glacialis -- 7. Right Whales Past and Present as Revealed by Their Genes -- 8. The Inner Whale: Hormones, Biotoxins, and Parasites -- 9. External Perspectives on Right Whale Health -- 10. Acoustic Communication: Social Sounds and the Potential Impacts of Noise -- 11. Listening to Their World: Acoustics for Monitoring and Protecting Right Whales in an Urbanized Ocean -- 12. Right Whale Mortality: A Message from the Dead to the Living -- 13. The Entangled Lives of Right Whales and Fishermen: Can They Coexist? -- 14. Running the Gauntlet: Right Whales and Vessel Strikes -- 15. Right Whales and Climate Change: Facing the Prospect of a Greenhouse Future -- 16. The Big Picture: Modeling Right Whales in Space and Time -- 17. The Urban Whale Syndrome -- Appendix A: Permit Information -- Appendix B: Opportunistic Contributors to the Right Whale Catalog -- Appendix C: Other Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.
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