The Urban Whale

Scott D. Krauss, Rosalind M. Rolland

544 pages, parution le 02/04/2007

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In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of twenty-five right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." 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. The authors present our current knowledge about the biology and plight of right whales, including their reproduction, feeding, genetics, and endocrinology, as well as fatal run-ins with ships and fishing gear. Employing individual identifications, acoustics, and population models, Scott Kraus, Rosalind Rolland, and their colleagues present a vivid history of this animal, from a once commercially hunted commodity to today's life-threatening challenges of urban waters. Hunted for nearly a millennium, right whales are now being killed by the ocean commerce that supports our modern way of life. This book offers hope for the eventual salvation of this great whale.

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Right Whales in the Urban Ocean
Near-Annihilation of a Species: Right Whaling in the North Atlantic
Right Whales Tell Their Own Stories: The photo-Identification
Surveying for Discovery, Science, and Management
Enormous Carnivores, Microscopic Food, and a Restaurant That's hard to Find
High Investment, Low Return: The Strange Case of Reproduction
Right Whales Past and Present as Revealed by Their Genes
The Inner Whale: Hormones, Biotoxins, and Parasites
External Perspectives on Right Whale Health
Acoustic Communication: Social Sounds and the Potential Impacts of Noise
Listening to Their World: Acoustics for Monitoring and Protecting Right Whales in an Urbanized Ocean
Right Whale Mortality: A Message from the Dead to the Living
The Entangled Lives of Right Whales and Fishermen: Can They Coexist?
Running the Gauntlet: Right Whales and Vessels Strikes
Right Whales and Climate Change: Facing the Prospect of a Greenhouse Future
The Big Picture: Modeling Right Whales in Space and Time
The Urban Whale Syndrome

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Éditeur(s)	Harvard University Press
Auteur(s)	Scott D. Krauss, Rosalind M. Rolland
Parution	02/04/2007
Nb. de pages	544
Format	17 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1222g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780674023277
ISBN13	978-0-674-02327-7