| Description |
72 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
DK eyewitness books.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Describes whales, dolphins, seals, and other marine mammals, their habitats, means of communication, and family life. |
| Contents |
Marine mammals -- Whale evolution -- Whales big and small -- Inside the whale -- Seals and sea lions -- Suited to life in the sea -- Ocean giants -- Teeth for grasping... -- ...and baleen for filtering -- Clicks, barks, and songs -- Courtship and birth -- Social life -- Dolphins and porpoises -- The killer whale -- The amazing narwhal -- The sperm whale -- The elephant seal -- I am the walrus -- Sea cows -- Hunting the mighty whale -- Whaling in the 20th century -- Oils, brushes, and corsets -- Seal hunting -- Myths and legends -- Strandings and whale watching -- Fishing and pollution -- Studying sea mammals -- Save the whale! -- Who's who. |
| Audience |
930L Lexile |
| Note |
930L Lexile |
| Subject |
Whales -- Juvenile literature.
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Marine mammals -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Greenaway, Frank (Photographer)
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| ISBN |
9780756607395 (hardcover) |
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0756607396 (hardcover) |
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9780756607388 (lib. bdg.) |
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0756607388 (lib. bdg.) |
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