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McLeish, Todd.
Narwhal.
Whales.
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Narwhals : Arctic whales in a melting world / Todd McLeish.
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McLeish, Todd.
University of Washington Press, c2013.
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599.543 M163n
Subjects
Narwhal.
Whales.
ISBN:
9780295992648 (pbk.)
0295992646 (pbk.)
Description:
x, 206 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"This book is published with the assistance of a grant from the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Book Fund"-- t.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
Contents:
Prologue -- First encounter -- Whale spotting -- A symphony of moos -- The inside-out tooth -- Mythology -- Melting ice -- Greenland -- Subsistence -- Muktuk -- To the east -- Playing catch -- Gaining ground -- Looking ahead.
Summary:
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval European myths and Inuit legends, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem and are able to dive below thick sheets of ice to depths of up to 1,500 meters in search of their prey-halibut, cod, and squid. McLeish consults logbooks kept by whalers and explorers and interviews folklorists and historians to tease out the relationship between the real narwhal and the mythical unicorn. In Colorado, he visits climatologists studying changes in the seasonal cycles of the Arctic ice. From a history of the trade in narwhal tusks to descriptions of narwhals' vocalizations as heard through hydrophones, Narwhals reveals the beauty and thrill of the narwhal and its habitat, and the threat it faces from a rapidly changing world.
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