The Sounding of the Whale
Title | The Sounding of the Whale PDF eBook |
Author | D. Graham Burnett |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 825 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226081303 |
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The Breath of a Whale
Title | The Breath of a Whale PDF eBook |
Author | Leigh Calvez |
Publisher | Sasquatch Books |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1632171872 |
An ode to marine life and the natural world, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Owls This “intimate and spirited” essay collection “offers us the whale watch most of us can only dream of” as they reveal the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean—home to orcas, humpbacks, blue, gray, and sperm whales (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus). Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities. Calvez author invites the reader onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throw, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.
The Whale Scientists
Title | The Whale Scientists PDF eBook |
Author | Fran Hodgkins |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618556731 |
Discusses how scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings.
We Are All Whalers
Title | We Are All Whalers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Moore |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2021-11-12 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 022680304X |
"Marine scientist Michael J. Moore says we are all whalers, but we don't have to be. Eating fish leads to North Atlantic right whales' entanglement and death. Buying goods made around the world requires global shipping routes, which do not accurately consider right whale breeding and feeding sites, leading to collision. To explain this, Moore conveys to readers scenes from over thirty years' worth of fieldwork, performing whale necropsies for animals stranded on beaches, working as an independent researcher alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and tracking injured pregnant whales to deliver antibiotics. Despite these sometimes disturbing experiences, Moore has written a hopeful book. He uses these stories to show we can change and to tell us how; the technology for rope-less fishing and tracking whale migrations already exist to protect both right whales and the people who depend on shipping and fishing for their livelihoods"--
The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
Title | The Killer Whale Who Changed the World PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Leiren-Young |
Publisher | Greystone Books |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2016-09-13 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1771641940 |
The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale — a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll — as the whale became known — was an instant celebrity, drawing 20,000 visitors on the one and only day he was exhibited. He died within a few months, but his famous gentleness sparked a worldwide crusade that transformed how people understood and appreciated orcas. Because of Moby Doll, we stopped fearing “killers” and grew to love and respect “orcas.” Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute
Science Comics: Whales
Title | Science Comics: Whales PDF eBook |
Author | Casey Zakroff |
Publisher | First Second |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2021-10-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1250861047 |
Dive deep with Science Comics: Whales, a new and exciting volume of First Second's nonfiction graphic novel series! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you! In this volume, Zip, an enthusiastic beaked whale, is eager to share everything he can about whale pods by broadcasting his very own undersea podcast! He will travel across the global ocean interviewing a diverse assortment of whales and dolphins about their amazing behaviors and habitats, as well as their interactions with the human world. Can this one small whale tell the story of the whole ocean and the interconnectivity that affects us all?
Whaling Season
Title | Whaling Season PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lourie |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618777099 |
Profiles the work of John Craighead George, an Arctic whale scientist, as he studies the bowhead whale and works with the indigenous people of Alaska to better understand the history of the animal.