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The author chronicles the history of whaling in both hemispheres, and discusses regulation and anti-whaling movements.

An illustrated survey of 33 species of whales describing their dimensions, habitats, habits, courting rituals, intelligence and their relationships with each other and with other creatures.

"A ... first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection,...

Overview: Troubled Waters explores the fate of whales and dolphins and how that fate became intertwined with human history. The story begins more than 1,000 years ago when hunters first took up harpoons and went to sea in search of the rich rewards of meat, oil and whalebone. The book charts a course through the whaling boom of the 18th and 19th centuries, the tragic implications of commercial fishing and noise pollution, the controversial keeping...

To many, the whale is a majestic mammal, the 'mind in the ocean'. What were once whaling towns have become homes to hordes of devoted whale watchers, and whaling, for the most part, was thought to have been vanquished. It was just a matter of waiting for those few misguided nations still whaling to come to their senses. That never happened. Instead, the whalers came back. In 1987, the first full year after the worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling...

Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining, Thousand Mile Song uses the enigma of whale sounds to open up whales' underwater world of sonic mystery. In observing and talking with leading researchers from around the globe as...

Examines the confrontation between the Save the Whale forces and the whale hunters.

A dramatic rendering of life aboard a whale-saving pirate ship traces the efforts of a vigilante crew to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the Antarctica seas, in an account that profiles the Sea Shepherd Society of radical environmentalists and the charismatic captain Paul Watson.

Boyd Matson travels to Egypt's Western Desert, once an immense ocean, where 400 whale skeletons are buried beneath the sand, including the basilosaurus, an archaic whale species which may further the evolutionary story of whales. Off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, female harbor seals wait to give birth to their pups. Crittercam explores the male serenading call and the potentially harm that man-made sounds have on their music. Join a 24-hour inventory...