The Resource The cultural lives of whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
The cultural lives of whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
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The item The cultural lives of whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Culture in the ocean?
- Culture?
- Mammals of the ocean
- Song of the whale
- What the dolphins do
- Mother cultures of the large toothed whales
- How do they do it?
- Is this evidence for culture?
- How the whales got culture
- Whale culture and whale genes
- The implications of culture : ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation
- The cultural whales : how we see them and how we treat them
- This book came from and is built on..
- Isbn
- 9780226895314
- Label
- The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
- Title
- The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
- Statement of responsibility
- Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins, cetacean biologists Hal Whitehead, who has spent much of his life on the ocean trying to understand whales, and Luke Rendell, whose research focuses on the evolution of social learning, open an astounding porthole onto the fascinating culture beneath the waves. As Whitehead and Rendell show, cetacean culture and its transmission are shaped by a blend of adaptations, innate sociality, and the unique environment in which whales and dolphins live: a watery world in which a hundred-and-fifty-ton blue whale can move with utter grace, and where the vertical expanse is as vital, and almost as vast, as the horizontal
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10394309
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Whitehead, Hal
- Dewey number
- 599.5
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Rendell, Luke
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Whales
- Dolphins
- Social behavior in animals
- Animal communication
- Animal communication
- Dolphins
- Social behavior in animals
- Whales
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The cultural lives of whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-398) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Culture in the ocean? -- Culture? -- Mammals of the ocean -- Song of the whale -- What the dolphins do -- Mother cultures of the large toothed whales -- How do they do it? -- Is this evidence for culture? -- How the whales got culture -- Whale culture and whale genes -- The implications of culture : ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation -- The cultural whales : how we see them and how we treat them -- This book came from and is built on..
- Control code
- ocn871670748
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780226895314
- Isbn Type
- (Hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014020610
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)871670748
- Label
- The cultural lives of whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-398) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Culture in the ocean? -- Culture? -- Mammals of the ocean -- Song of the whale -- What the dolphins do -- Mother cultures of the large toothed whales -- How do they do it? -- Is this evidence for culture? -- How the whales got culture -- Whale culture and whale genes -- The implications of culture : ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation -- The cultural whales : how we see them and how we treat them -- This book came from and is built on..
- Control code
- ocn871670748
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780226895314
- Isbn Type
- (Hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014020610
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)871670748
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