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Narwhals : Arctic whales in a melting world / Todd McLeish.
Van Pelt Library QL737.C433 M43 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLeish, Todd.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narwhal.
- Physical Description:
- x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval myths, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- First encounter
- Whale spotting
- A symphony of moos
- The inside-out tooth
- Mythology
- Melting ice
- Greenland
- Subsistence
- Muktuk
- To the east
- Playing catch
- Gaining ground
- Looking ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295992646
- 9780295992648
- OCLC:
- 817562965
- Publisher Number:
- 99953389102
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