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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Annalisa Berta , Prof Annalisa BertaPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 28.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 1.588kg ISBN: 9780226183190ISBN 10: 022618319 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 18 September 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsEntries are brief, accurate, authoritative, and they highlight fascinating features of these animals. This informative and captivating book will be a fine addition to libraries that serve everyone from laypeople to researchers and scientists who are interested in learning more about marine mammalogy, in particular the titular species. --Tina Chan, SUNY Oswego Library Journal I take the good old-fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, Ishmael says confidently in Melville s Moby-Dick. Old-fashioned indeed whales are mammals, not fish. Thankfully, our scientific understanding of whales has come a long way since 1851, and much of that knowledge is collected in Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, a sperm whale-sized compendium of all things cetacean. --Chelsea Leu WIRED Author InformationAnnalisa Berta is professor of biology at San Diego State University, where she specializes in the evolutionary biology of marine mammals, especially baleen whales. Berta is coauthor of Marine Mammals, Third Edition: Evolutionary Biology and author of Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals. She lives in San Diego, CA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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