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Cultural Lives Of Whales And Dolphins
Hardback Edition: 1
Cetacean biologists Hal Whitehead, who has spent much of his life on the ocean trying to understand whales, and Luke Rendell, whose research focuses on the evolution of social learning, open an astounding porthole onto the fascinating culture beneath the waves. As Whitehead and Rendell
show, cetacean culture and its transmission are shaped by a blend of adaptations, innate sociality, and the unique environment in which whales and dolphins live: a watery world in which a 150-ton blue whale can move with utter grace, and where the vertical expanse is as vital, and almost as vast, as the horizontal.
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Pages : 408
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Publication date : 2014-12-24
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure