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The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads Book

The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads
The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads, In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard. Until that time, scientists believed the North , The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads
  • Written by author Scott D. Kraus
  • Published by Harvard University Press, February 2007
  • In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." Until that time, scientists believed the North
  • In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." Until that time, scientists believed the North
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  • Preface

  • List of Marine Species

  • Abbreviations


  1. Right Whales in the Urban Ocean
    Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland

  2. Near-Annihilation of a Species: Right Whaling in the North Atlantic
    Randall R. Reeves, Tim D. Smith, and Elizabeth A. Josephson

  3. Right Whales Tell Their Own Stories: The Photo-Identification Catalog
    Philip K. Hamilton, Amy R. Knowlton, and Marilyn K. Marx

  4. Surveying for Discovery, Science, and Management
    Moira W. Brown, Scott D. Kraus, Christopher K. Slay, and Lance P. Garrison

  5. Enormous Carnivores, Microscopic Food, and a Restaurant That's Hard to Find
    Mark F. Baumgartner, Charles A. Mayo, and Robert D. Kenney

  6. High Investment, Low Return: The Strange Case of Reproduction in Eubalaena glacialis
    Scott D. Kraus, Richard M. Pace III, and Timothy R. Frasier

  7. Right Whales Past and Present as Revealed by Their Genes
    Timothy R. Frasier, Brenna A. Mcleod, Roxanne M. Gillett, Moira W. Brown, and Bradley N. White

  8. The Inner Whale: Hormones, Biotoxins, and Parasites
    Rosalind M. Rolland, Kathleen E. Hunt, Gregory J. Doucette, Lora G. Rickard, and Samuel K. Wasser

  9. External Perspectives on Right Whale Health
    Rosalind M. Rolland, Philip K. Hamilton, Marilyn K. Marx, Heather M. Pettis, Carolyn M. Angell, and Michael J. Moore

  10. Acoustic Communication: Social Sounds and the Potential Impacts of Noise
    Susan E. Parks and Christopher W. Clark

  11. Listening to Their World: Acoustics for Monitoring and Protecting Right Whales in an Urbanized Ocean
    Christopher W. Clark, Douglas Gillespie, Douglas P. Nowacek, and Susan E. Parks

  12. Right Whale Mortality: A Message from the Dead to the Living
    Michael J. Moore, William A. Mclellan, Pierre-Yves Daoust, Robert K. Bonde, and Amy R. Knowlton

  13. The Entangled Lives of Right Whales and Fishermen: Can They Coexist?
    Amanda J. Johnson, Scott D. Kraus, John F. Kenney, and Charles A. Mayo

  14. Running the Gauntlet: Right Whales and Vessel Strikes
    Amy R. Knowlton and Moira W. Brown

  15. Right Whales and Climate Change: Facing the Prospect of a Greenhouse Future
    Robert D. Kenney

  16. The Big Picture: Modeling Right Whales in Space and Time
    Lance P. Garrison

  17. The Urban Whale Syndrome
    Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland


  • Appendix A: Permit Information

  • Appendix B: Opportunistic Contributors to the Right Whale Catalog

  • Appendix C: Other Resources

  • Acknowledgments

  • Contributors

  • Index


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