Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 4
Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4
Sea Mammals
🖊️ Edited by Russell A. Mittermeier, Don E. Wilson
🎨 Illustrated by Toni Llobet
Published by Lynx Edicions in association with Conservation International and IUCN
Marine mammals include some of the most fascinating animals on Earth. Large, majestic whales and stunning, playful dolphins have provided mysterious companionship to humans at sea for hundreds of years. These magical creatures, along with the equally fascinating manatees, dugongs, seals, sea lions, and walrusses, have developed a completely different set of adaptations from their terrestrial ancestors and relatives.
Volume 4 of the HMW series provides complete accounts of all species and families in these important groups. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs showing different behaviours of all of them, the text contains the latest up-to-date information on all families of sea mammals.
This volume also includes a Special Chapter about Sea Mammal Conservation, by Roderic B. Mast, Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez and Arlo H. Hemphill.
| Families covered in this volume are: | |
| Family Otariidae (Eared Seals) | Marc Webber |
| Family Odobenidae (Walrus) | Brent Stewart |
| Family Phocidae (Earless Seals) | Brent Stewart |
| Family Balaenidae (Right and Bowhead Whales) | Barbara Curry & Robert Brownell Jr |
| Family Neobalaenidae (Pygmy Right Whale) | Catherine Kemper |
| Family Eschrichtiidae (Gray Whale) | Steven Swartz |
| Family Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) | Thomas Deméré |
| Family Physeteridae (Sperm Whale) | Sarah Mesnick |
| Family Kogiidae (Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales) | Donald McAlpine |
| Family Ziphiidae (Beaked Whales) | Colin MacLeod |
| Family Platanistidae (South Asian River Dolphin) | Gill Braulik |
| Family Iniidae (Amazon River Dolphins) | Vera da Silva & Anthony Martin |
| Family Lipotidae (Baiji) | Brian Smith |
| Family Pontoporiidae (Franciscana) | Eduardo Secchi |
| Family Monodontidae (Narwhal and Beluga) | Pierre Richard |
| Family Delphinidae (Ocean Dolphins) | John Wang, Kimberly Riehl & Sarah Dungan |
| Family Phocoenidae (Porpoises) | Thomas Jefferson |
| Family Trichechidae (Manatees) | Thomas O’Shea |
| Family Dugongidae (Dugong) | Helene Marsh |
- 30 colour plates
- 667 colour photographs
- 147 distribution maps
| WEIGHT | 3.75 kg |
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| DIMENSIONS | 24 × 31 cm |
| LANGUAGE | English |
| PRODUCT FORMAT | Hardback |
| PAGES | 614 |
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