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The Natural History of the Whale / L. Harrison Matthews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, L. Harrison, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1978]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Studies the history of whales from its cetology, food and feeding, swimming and diving, migration, communication, behavior, parasites, and diseases.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Cetology from its beginnings to 1945
- 2. The cetacean diversity
- 3. Food and feeding
- 4. Breeding and growth
- 5. Swimming and diving
- 6. Migration
- 7. Communication and echolocation
- 8. Behaviour and social relations
- 9. Parasites, diseases and enemies
- A list of the living species of Cetacea
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-88697-7
- OCLC:
- 1036795551
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