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The Anatomy of Dolphins: Insights into Body Structure and Function is a precise, detailed, fully illustrated, descriptive, and functionally oriented text on the anatomy and morph… Read more
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The Anatomy of Dolphins: Insights into Body Structure and Function is a precise, detailed, fully illustrated, descriptive, and functionally oriented text on the anatomy and morphology of dolphins. It focuses on a number of delphinid species, with keynotes on important dolphin-like genera, such as the harbor porpoise. It also serves as a useful complement for expanding trends and emphases in molecular biology and genetics.
The authors share their life-long expertise on marine mammals in various disciplines. Written as a team rather than being prepared as a collection of separate contributions, the result is a uniform and comprehensive style, giving each of the different topics appropriate space. Many color figures, which use the authors’ access to wide collections of unique dolphin and whale material, round out this exceptional offering to the field.
Marine biologists; naturalists; veterinarians; PhD students; bio-acousticians; comparative neuroscientists
1. Natural history and relationships of dolphins: short history of dolphin anatomical research
2. General appearance and hydrodynamics (including skin anatomy)
3. Locomotion (including osteology and myology)
4. Diving (breathing, respiration and circulatory system)
5. Head and senses (including nervous system, and communication mechanisms)
6. Inner body control
7. Feeding and digestive system
8. Genital systems, reproduction and development
9. Urinary system and water balance
10. Neurobiology and evolution of dolphins
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His scientific production is focused mainly on comparative neuroendocrinology and neuroanatomy of large domestic herbivores, marine mammals, and man. In 2002 he founded the Mediterranean marine mammal tissue Bank.
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