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The cultural lives of whales and dolphins  Cover Image Book Book

The cultural lives of whales and dolphins

Whitehead, Hal (author.). Rendell, Luke, 1973- (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780226187426 (e-book)
  • ISBN: 0226895319 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780226895314 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-398) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Culture in the ocean? -- Culture? -- Mammals of the ocean -- Song of the whale -- What the dolphins do -- Mother cultures of the large toothed whales -- How do they do it? -- Is this evidence for culture? -- How the whales got culture -- Whale culture and whale genes -- The implications of Culture: ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation -- The cultural whales: how we see them and how we treat them -- This book came from and is built on ...
Subject: Whales
Social behavior in animals
Dolphins
Animal communication
Animal communication
Social behavior in animals
Dolphins
Whales

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