By Bernd Würsig,Melany Wursig
ISBN-10: 0123737230
ISBN-13: 9780123737236
The Dusky Dolphin: grasp Acrobat Off diverse shorelines covers a variety of issues in regards to the dusky dolphin, together with its taxonomy, historical past and demography, ecology, and behaviour. After introducing the dusky dolphin as a member of the genus Lagenorhynchus less than the relations Delphinidae, the ebook maintains via describing its lifestyles historical past, its demographic styles, and its function within the nutrition net contemplating predation, parasitism, and pageant. The ebook additionally contains chapters that debate the interplay of the dusky dolphin with its habitats, equivalent to the dusky dolphin’s sound construction, its foraging at evening and in sunlight, its survival thoughts in keeping with predator threats, the mating behavior of latest Zealand duskies, calf rearing, sexual segregation, and genetic relationships. different chapters deal with the interplay of dusky dolphins with humans.
This ebook bargains information regarding dusky dolphins off Southern Africa and discussions concerning the styles of sympatry in Lagenorhynchus and Cephalorhynchus. ultimately, comparisons among dusky dolphins and nice apes as large-brained mammals also are reviewed during this ebook.
- Only e-book totally dedicated to the southern hemisphere "dusky" dolphin
- Heavily illustrated with charts, figures, tables, and all colour photos
- Written via a cadre of specialists in detail accustomed to dolphin box work
- Written in a correct but obtainable variety for the scientist and normal historian alike
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