Explores the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and feeding habits of these underwater mammals.

The eighty-nine cetacean species that swim our seas and rivers are as diverse as they are intelligent and elusive, from the hundred-foot-long, two-hundred-ton b

'Everyone who loves the sea and what's in it should own this book.' - Bill Bryson From the blue whale to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, this handbook is the

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European Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: Marine Mammal Conservation in Practice presents an intimate view of the workings of international conservation agreeme