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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 W rsig, 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
Contents
Chapter 1: The Dusky Dolphins' Place in the Delphinid Family Tree
Chapter 2: Dusky Dolphin Life History and Demography
Chapter
3: Dusky Dolphin Trophic Ecology: Their Role in the Food Web
Chapter 4: Acoustics of Dusky Dolphins
Chapter 5: Dusky Dolphins
Foraging at Night
Chapter 6: Dusky Dolphins Foraging in Daylight
Chapter 7: Predator Threats and Dusky Dolphin Survival
Strategies
Chapter 8: Mating Habits of New Zealand Dusky Dolphins
Chapter 9: Dusky Dolphin Calf Rearing
Chapter
10: Dusky Dolphin Sexual Segregation and Genetic Relatedness in New Zealand
Chapter 11: Human Interactions with Dusky Dolphins:
Harvest, Fisheries, Habitat Alteration, and Tourism
Chapter 12: Human Interactions, A Management Perspective with Focus on Dusky
Dolphins
Chapter 13: Dolphin Swimming and Watching: One Tourism Operator's perspective
Dennis Buurman
Chapter 14:
Neglected but not Forgotten: Southern Africa's Dusky Dolphin
Chapter 15: Patterns of Sympatry in Lagenorhynchus and Cephalorhynchus:
Dolphins in Different Habitats
Chapter 16: A Large-Brained Social Mammal
Chapter 17: Social Creatures in a Changing Sea:
Concluding Remarks
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Hardbound, 416 pages, publication date: SEP-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373723-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-373723-0
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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