Watching Giants the Secret Lives of Whales
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University of California Press
2008
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- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Extreme Motherhood; 2. A Sea of Milk; 3. Looking for Whales in All the Wrong Places; 4. Resident Aliens?; 5. How to Make a Really Rich Sea; 6. Popular Mechanics; 7. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Smartest of Them All?; 8. Building Nets from Bubbles andOther Mysterious Humpback Whale Talents57; 9. Do Baby Sperm WhalesSuck Milk through Their Noses?; 10. Deep Culture; 11. What's the Use of Granny?; 12. Dolphin Snatchers; 13. Friendly Mothers, Friendly Calves?; 14. The War on Fish; 15. Why Blue Whales Gotta Be Big
- 16. What You Can See by Listening17. What You Can Learn from the Dead; 18. Let's Talk about Sex, Baby; 19. Missing Meat; 20. Shifting Scale; Notes; Index
- Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from her rich, often humorous, everyday experiences as a mother, a woman, and a scientist, takes us to the incredibly productive waters of the Gulf of California and beyond, to oceans around the world. Kelsey brings us along as she talks to leading cetacean researchers and marine ecologists about their intriguing discoveries. We encounter humpback wh