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Author : L. Harrison Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258667030
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Sperm Whale, Physeter Catodon written by L. Harrison Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Harrison Matthews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Sperm Whale, Physeter Catodon written by Leonard Harrison Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Flower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Osteology of the Cachalot Or Sperm-whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) written by William Henry Flower and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Megan M. Gunderson
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781616134518
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Sperm Whales written by Megan M. Gunderson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into Earth's oceans and discover the world of the sperm whale! Stunning, full-color photos show these large-headed whales above water and below. A range map reveals where these special sea creatures can be found. A labeled diagram helps readers identify flukes, flippers, and more. The sperm whale's size, habitat, senses, threats, diet, reproduction, and unique behaviors are also introduced. Plus, find out about the spermaceti organ that gives these whales their name. Learn about the long, deep dives sperm whales are capable of, and discover how they communicate. A facts page, bolded glossary terms, and an index support the engaging, easy-to-read chapter text. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Author : Hal Whitehead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226895181
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Sperm Whales written by Hal Whitehead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed in story as "the great leviathans," sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty tons. With this book, Hal Whitehead gives us a clearer picture of the ecology and social life of sperm whales than we have ever had before. Based on almost two decades of field research, Whitehead describes their biology, behavior, and habitat; how they organize their societies; and how their complex lifestyles may have evolved in this unique environment. Among the many fascinating topics he explores is the crucial role that culture plays in the life of the sperm whale, and he traces the consequences of this argument for both evolution and conservation. Finally, drawing on these findings, Whitehead builds a general model of how the ocean environment influences social behavior and cultural evolution among mammals as well as other animals. The definitive portrait of a provocative creature, Sperm Whales will interest animal behaviorists, conservationists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists as well as marine mammalogists.
Author : William S. Wall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History and Description of the Skeleton of a New Sperm Whale, Lately Set Up in the Australian Museum written by William S. Wall and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Beale (surgeon.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ... written by Thomas Beale (surgeon.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Busnel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468472542
Total Pages : 1097 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Animal Sonar Systems written by R. Busnel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen years have gone by since the first international meet ing on Animal Sonar Systems was held in Frascati, Italy, in 1966. Since that time, almost 900 papers have been published on its theme. The first symposium was vital as it was the starting point for new research lines whose goal was to design and develop technological systems with properties approaching optimal biological systems. There have been highly significant developments since then in all domains related to biological sonar systems and in their appli cations to the engineering field. The time had therefore come for a multidisciplinary integration of the information gathered, not only on the evolution of systems used in animal echolocation, but on systems theory, behavior and neurobiology, signal-to-noise ratio, masking, signal processing, and measures observed in certain species against animal sonar systems. Modern electronics technology and systems theory which have been developed only since 1974 now allow designing sophisticated sonar and radar systems applying principles derived from biological systems. At the time of the Frascati meeting, integrated circuits and technol ogies exploiting computer science were not well enough developed to yield advantages now possible through use of real-time analysis, leading to, among other things, a definition of target temporal char acteristics, as biological sonar systems are able to do. All of these new technical developments necessitate close co operation between engineers and biologists within the framework of new experiments which have been designed, particularly in the past five years.
Author : Thomas Beale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of the Sperm Whale written by Thomas Beale and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Embracing a description of the extent, as well as the adventures and accidents that occurred during the voyage in which the author was personally engaged.
Author : Paul E. Nachtigall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468474936
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Animal Sonar written by Paul E. Nachtigall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first meeting on biosonar that I had the opportunity to attend was held in 1978 on the Island of Jersey in the English Channel. That meeting, organized by Professor R.G. Busne1 and Dr. Jim Fish, was my introduction to an exciting and varied group of hard-working and dedicated scientists studying animal echolocation. They are, by nature, a very diverse group. They tend to publish in different journals and rarely interact despite the fact that they all work on echolocation. When they do interact as a group, as they did in Frascati Italy in 1966, in Jersey i~ 1978, and during the meeting reported in this volume, the meetings are intense, interesting, and exciting. This volume is a composition of a series of contributed papers written to foster an interdisciplinary understanding of the echolocation systems of animals. The echolocation pulse production studies in bats and dolphins have recently been concentrated on the ontogeny of infant pulses, other studies, with three-dimensional computer graphics and x-ray computed tomography, have concentrated on finally resolving the old controversy concerning the site of dolphin echolocation click production. Much has been accomplished on the analysis of bat neural structure and function. The intense effort directed toward understanding the structure, connections, and functional properties of parallel auditory pathways and the parallel and hierarchical processing of information by the mustached bat, has lead to dramatic breakthroughs in understanding brain function.
Author : George Hines Lowery
Publisher : Louisiana State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807106099
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Mammals of Louisiana and Its Adjacent Waters written by George Hines Lowery and published by Louisiana State University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles practical details to aid in the identification of seventy-one species of mammals in Louisiana.
Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700617728
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Great Sperm Whale written by Richard Ellis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, Richard Ellis has produced a remarkable body of work that has been called "magnificent" (Washington Post Book World), "masterful" (Scientific American), "magical" (Men's Journal), and a "dazzling tour de force" (Christian Science Monitor). Ellis's new book-a fascinating tour through the world of the sperm whale-will surely inspire more such praise for the author heralded by Publisher Weekly as "America's foremost writer on marine research." Written with Ellis's deep knowledge and trademark passion, verve, and wit-and illustrated with a wide array of images including his own signature artwork-his study covers the full spectrum of the sperm whale's existence from its prehistoric past to its current endangered existence. Ellis, as no one else can, illuminates the iconic impact of Physeter macrocephalus ("big-headed blower") on our history, environment, and culture, with a substantial nod to Herman Melville and Moby-Dick, the great novel that put the sperm whale (and whaling) on the literary map. Ranging far and wide, Ellis covers the sperm whale's evolution, ecology, biology, anatomy, behavior, social organization, intelligence, communications, migrations, diet, and breeding. He also devotes considerable space to the whale's hunting prowess, including its clashes with the giant squid, and to the history of the whaling industry that decimated its numbers during the last two centuries. He even includes a story about a beached juvenile he helped rescue, an event that provided scientists with one of their first opportunities to observe a sperm whale in the water and up close. Offering a rich tapestry for anyone with an interest in the marvels of ocean life, Ellis's book provides an indispensable guide to the life and times of one of the planet's most intelligent, elusive, and endangered species.
Author : William S. Wall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book History and Description of the Skeleton of New Sperm Whale written by William S. Wall and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Imbriaco
Publisher : MyReportLinks.com Books
ISBN 13 : 9781598450712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Sperm Whale written by Alison Imbriaco and published by MyReportLinks.com Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses sperm whales, their characteristics and habitat, and what is being done to save this endangered species.
Author : Australian Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History and Description of the Skeleton of a New Sperm Whale written by Australian Museum and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Beale
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781150244278
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of the Sperm Whale to Which Is Added, a Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage written by Thomas Beale and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SPERM WHALE. It will be seen, in the following compilation of the anatomy and physiology of the sperm whale, which I have gleaned from the various naturalists who have from time to time written upon these interesting subjects, that I have largely availed myself of the inimitable paper, originally presented to the Royal Society by the great John Hunter, which treats of the structure and economy of whales. I have thought proper to reprint nearly the whole of this paper, because of the exceedingly interesting nature of its contents, --not because it does not treat solely of the anatomy of the sperm whale, but because it contains passages so highly original and profound, not only of whales in general, and of the sperm whale in particular, that to have left this article without it, a mere barren chapter would have presented itself, wholly without interest. For although the structural and functional developements of several kinds of whales are considered in that learned paper, the peculiarities of which are exposed with amazing judgment by our great naturalist, still the reader will observe that there is a strong analogy among them in the internal arrangement of their organs; as in the stomach, liver, parts of generation in both sexes, and also in the kidney, lungs, and brain; and where they differ in organic development, the gifted author beautifully describes the alteration and its object. In fact, as far as I have examined, and I believe that I have perused every writer of note on these subjects, there is not a paper, or any work on "record, equal in any degree to that which was produced by Hunter; for although much, very much, remains to be known of the structure and economy of the sperm and other whales, yet Hunter threw...
Author : John F. Prevost
Publisher : Checkerboard Library
ISBN 13 : 9781562394783
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Sperm Whales written by John F. Prevost and published by Checkerboard Library. This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and food habits of sperm whales.
