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Narwhals - Todd McLeish

Narwhals

Arctic Whales in a Melting World

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2014
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99416-1 (ISBN)
CHF 39,90 inkl. MwSt
From a history of the trade in narwhal tusks to descriptions of narwhals' vocalizations as heard through hydrophones, this book reveals the beauty and thrill of the narwhal and its habitat, and the threat it faces from a rapidly changing world.
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval European myths and Inuit legends, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem and are able to dive below thick sheets of ice to depths of up to 1,500 meters in search of their prey-halibut, cod, and squid.

Join Todd McLeish as he travels high above the Arctic circle to meet:

Teams of scientific researchers studying the narwhal's life cycle and the mysteries of its tusk

Inuit storytellers and hunters

Animals that share the narwhals' habitat: walruses, polar bears, bowhead and beluga whales, ivory gulls, and two kinds of seals

McLeish consults logbooks kept by whalers and explorers and interviews folklorists and historians to tease out the relationship between the real narwhal and the mythical unicorn. In Colorado, he visits climatologists studying changes in the seasonal cycles of the Arctic ice. From a history of the trade in narwhal tusks to descriptions of narwhals' vocalizations as heard through hydrophones, Narwhals reveals the beauty and thrill of the narwhal and its habitat, and the threat it faces from a rapidly changing world.

Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwaqdKyLCQ&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=9&feature=plcp

Todd McLeish is the author of Golden Wings and Hairy Toes: Encounters with New England's Most Imperiled Wildlife and Basking with Humpbacks: Tracking Threatened Marine Life in New England Waters. He lives in Pascoag, Rhode Island.

Prologue

1. First Encounter

2. Whale Spotting

3. A Symphony of Moos

4. The Inside-Out Tooth

5. Mythology

6. Melting Ice

7. Greenland

8. Subsistence

9. Muktuk

10. To the East

11. Playing Catch

12. Gaining Ground

13. Looking Ahead

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2014
Reihe/Serie Narwhals
Zusatzinfo 20 illus, 1 map
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 295 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturführer
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-295-99416-9 / 0295994169
ISBN-13 978-0-295-99416-1 / 9780295994161
Zustand Neuware
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