The Dusky Dolphin: Master Acrobat Off Different Shores - Hardcover

 
9780123737236: The Dusky Dolphin: Master Acrobat Off Different Shores
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0123737230 ISBN 13: 9780123737236
Verlag: Academic Press Inc, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The Dusky Dolphin: Master Acrobat Off Different Shores covers various topics about the dusky dolphin, including its taxonomy, history and demography, ecology, and behavior. After introducing the dusky dolphin as a member of the genus Lagenorhynchus under the family Delphinidae, the book continues by describing its life history, its demographic patterns, and its role in the food web considering predation, parasitism, and competition. The book also includes chapters that discuss the interaction of the dusky dolphin with its habitats, such as the dusky dolphin’s sound production, its foraging at night and in daylight, its survival strategies in response to predator threats, the mating habits of New Zealand duskies, calf rearing, sexual segregation, and genetic relationships. Other chapters address the interaction of dusky dolphins with humans. This book offers information about dusky dolphins off Southern Africa and discussions about the patterns of sympatry in Lagenorhynchus and Cephalorhynchus. Finally, comparisons between dusky dolphins and great apes as large-brained mammals are also reviewed in this book.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bernd Würsig, his students, and postdocs have studied marine mammals and sea birds on all continents, with present work mainly on dusky dolphins in diverse habitats of New Zealand, and beleaguered Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins of Hong Kong. His specialties are behavior and social strategies, especially as related to human disturbance. He has published and co-published about 180 peer review papers, over 50 popular articles, and 7 books. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Marine Biology of Texas A&M University at Galveston.

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Verlag
Academic Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0123737230
ISBN 13 
9780123737236
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
416
Herausgeber
Würsig Bernd, Wursig Melany
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