Whales, Dolphins, and PorpoisesThe Dorling Kindersley Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Dorling Kindersley Handbooks make identification easy and accurate. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 6 |
Anatomy of a Cetacean | 12 |
How Cetaceans Are Studied | 18 |
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Adult animals appear areas Atlantic Spotted Dolphin baleen Beaked Whale BEHAVIOR Beluga blow blowhole Blue Whale boats body color Bottlenose Dolphins bow-ride breaches Bryde's Whale center Status cetaceans concave trailing edges dark gray DELPHINIDAE distinct notch DIVE SEQUENCE dorsal fin Family DELPHINIDAE Species feeding females Fin position flippers flukes Gray Whale groups head hump Killer Whale lobtailing lower jaw MALE/FEMALE males Mesoplodon middle FLUKES mouth line Newborn Northern notch in middle oceanic offshore pale gray patch Pilot Whale pointed tips poorly known Population Threats Unknown Porpoise prominent beaks Pygmy Right Whale range rarely ridge river dolphins robust body rorquals rounded scarring Sei Whale shallow shape slender sometimes Southern Bottlenose Whale southern hemisphere Southern Rightwhale Dolphin Species Habitat Sperm Whale SPINNER DOLPHIN Spotted Dolphin spyhops Status Population Threats strandings surface swimming tail stock teeth throat grooves triangular upper jaw usually variable visible white underside