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Among giants : a life with whales / by Nicklin, Flip.; Kostyal, K. M.,1951-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction my father rode a whale -- Coming of age -- Jim Darling on humpbacks -- In the wake of whales -- Hal Whitehead on sperm whales -- Life in the high arctic -- Glenn Williams on the high arctic -- Crisis in the oceans -- Jon Stern on TK -- Imaging the future -- Bruce Mate on tracking technologies.One of the world's leading cetacean photographers describes his life photographing whales around the world, revealing their compexity and diversity and the continued threats to their existence from the whaling industry and environmental pollution.
Subjects: Whales.;
© 2011., University of Chicago Press,
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Whale fall : [electronic resource] : A novel. by O'Connor, Elizabeth.; Morris, Dyfrig.;
Narrator: Dyfrig Morris.In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations. The arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island culture, then, feels like a boon to her -- both a glimpse of life outside her community and a means of escape. The longer the ethnographers stay, the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued and exoticized. With shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit, Whale Fall tells the story of what happens when one person's ambitions threaten the fabric of a community, and what can happen when they are realized. O'Connor paints a portrait of a community and a woman on the precipice, forced to confront an outside world that seems to be closing in on them.Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Literature.;
© 2024., Books on Tape,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=10092034 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Men and whales / by Ellis, Richard,1938-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [506]-527) and index.The quarry -- Man meets whale -- The later history of early whaling -- Inshore whaling -- The sperm whale fishery -- Right and gray whaling -- The heavy artillery -- Aboriginal whaling -- Whaling outside the Antarctic -- Antarctic fortunes -- The beginning of the end -- The anti-whaling movement -- After the moratorium.
Subjects: Whaling; Whales.;
© 1991., Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc.,
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Watching giants : the secret lives of whales / by Kelsey, Elin.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.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 and other mysterious humpback whale talents -- 9. Do baby sperm whales suck 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 listening -- 17. What you can learn from the dead -- 18. Let's talk about sex, baby -- 19. Missing meat -- 20. Shifting scale -- Notes -- Index.
Subjects: Whales.; Whales;
© c2009., University of California Press,
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A little whale tale / by McKendry, Sam.; Castillon, Carly.ill;
A little whale gets lost, then finds his family and friends. Along the way, he meets many see creatures who try to help.
Subjects: Whales; Marine animals;
© c2001., Piggy Toes Press,
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How to speak Whale : [electronic resource] : A voyage into the future of Animal communication. by Mustill, Tom.; Mustill, Tom.;
Narrator: Tom Mustill.What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ‑ ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak —asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic—until a humpback whale breached, landing on top of them, releasing the energy equivalent of forty hand grenades. He was certain he was about to die, but they both survived, miraculously unscathed. In the interviews that followed the incident, Mustill was left with one question: What could this astonishing encounter teach us? Drawing from his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker, Mustill started investigating human–whale interactions around the world when he met two tech entrepreneurs who wanted to use artificial intelligence (AI)—originally designed to translate human languages—to discover patterns in the conversations of animals and decode them. As he embarked on a journey into animal eavesdropping technologies, where big data meets big beasts, Mustill discovered that there is a revolution taking place in biology, as the technologies developed to explore our own languages are turned to nature. From seventeenth-century Dutch inventors, to the whaling industry of the nineteenth century, to the cutting edge of Silicon Valley, How to Speak Whale examines how scientists and start-ups around the world are decoding animal communications. Whales, with their giant mammalian brains, virtuoso voices, and long, highly social lives, offer one of the most realistic opportunities for this to happen. But what would the consequences of such human animal interaction be? We're about to find out.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Science.;
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=8796189 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Whales, dolphins, and porpoises / by Carwardine, Mark.; Camm, Martin,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 255) and index.Offers advice on observing and identifying these marine mammals, and describes characteristics, behavior, and range for a variety of species.pt. 1. Introduction. Author's introduction -- How this book works -- What is a cetacean? -- Anatomy of a cetacean -- Cetacean behavior -- How cetaceans are studied -- Conservation -- Stranding -- Where to watch cetaceans -- How to watch cetaceans -- Identifying cetaceans -- Identification key -- pt. 2. Families and species. Right and gray whales -- Rorqual whales -- Sperm whales -- Narwhal and beluga -- Beaked whales -- Blackfish -- Oceanic dolphins with prominent beaks -- Oceanic dolphins without prominent beaks -- River dolphins -- Porpoises.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Cetacea.; Cetacea; Cetacea;
© 2002., Dorling Kindersley,
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Songs of the humpback whale : a novel in five voices / by Picoult, Jodi,1966-;
After a volatile argument, a woman leaves her husband in San Diego and takes her daughter on a cross-country odyssey to her brother's farm in Massachusetts, where self-discovery awaits. Meanwhile, as her husband searches the continent for her, he finds a new way of seeing the world, his family, and himself.
Subjects: Oceanographers; Married people; Interpersonal relations; Family;
© 1992., Washington Square Press,
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Moby Dick : [electronic resource] : Or, The Whale. by Melville, Herman.;
The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism, and one of the greatest American novels of all time.Grade 9Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2722 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 783 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2720 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 767 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
© 2012., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=784716 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The life cycle of a whale / by Kalman, Bobbie.; Thal, Karuna.;
What is a whale? -- Magnificent Humpback -- What is a life cycle? -- Great migrations -- Calf is born -- Nursing and growing -- Close to mom -- Growing calf -- Its first long trip -- To the breeding grounds -- Competing to mate -- Songs they sing -- Dangers to whales -- For the love of whales -- Glossary and index.Describes the physical characteristics, eating habits, behavior, and migration patterns of humpback whales, large marine mammals that are now an endangered species.
Subjects: Humpback whale; Humpback whale.; Whales.; Endangered species.; Baleine aÌ bosse; Baleines;
© c2002., Crabtree Pub. Co.,
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