Edited by
Bernd Wursig, Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas, USA
Melany Wursig
Description
Much has been written about dolphins and whales, and excellent books exist especially on the charismatic bottlenose dolphins; and killer,
humpback, and sperm whales. But detailed studies have been carried out on a handful of other species, and this book summarizes our state
of knowledge of a little dolphin – the southern hemisphere “dusky,” and compares its behavioral strategies in different environs. The
editors, Bernd and Mel Würsig, began studying duskies in Patagonia Argentina in 1972. Although they have been to many parts of the Earth
since then -- including work on Amazon and Yangtze river dolphins, Hawai’i for the delicate lovely spinner dolphin, the Arctic for bowhead
and gray whale work, and bottlenose dolphins in several milieus -- they have always returned to their first love of unraveling the social
patterns and life strategies of duskies that exist in small groups in semi-enclosed bays and as herds of well over one thousand in the
open ocean. This book documents the latest research, from their feeding patterns to their acrobatic skills. It is full of scientific
facts, with a sense of poetry and wonder of the unknown.
Audience:
Marine biologists; mammalogists; students of animal behavior; students of social ecology
