Marine Life category: 1318 books
Dolphin Chronicles
One Woman's Quest to Understand the Sea's Most Mysterious Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
For everyone fascinated with the possibilities of human-animal communications, scientist Carol Howard provides an intimate, moving account of one woman's attempt to unravel the mysteries of the dolphin--one of the sea's most fascinating and enigmatic creatures.
Deep Thinkers
Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Humans aside, dolphins, whales, and porpoises are often considered to be the smartest creatures on Earth. Science and nature buffs are drawn to stories of their use of tools, their self-recognition, their beautiful and complex songs, and their intricate societies. But how do we know what we know,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks. There has been a rapid decline in populations of many shark species, while new science has emerged of the critical role they play in marine ecosystems. However, the authors show that conservation law and policy...
Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition�but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603�1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed during...
by Peter Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Shallow Seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities. The margins of the continents, especially broad in the North Atlantic region, are drowned by shallow...
Vaquita
Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
In 2006, vaquita, a diminutive porpoise making its home in the Upper Gulf of California, inheritedthe dubious title of world's most endangered marine mammal.Nicknamed "panda of the sea” for their small size and beguiling facial markings, vaquitas have been in decline for decades, dying by the...
The Banggai Cardinalfish
Natural History, Conservation, and Culture of Pterapogon kauderni
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, is a fascinating species that possesses a series of remarkable biological characteristics making it unique among coral reef fishes. It has been the focus of studies in reproduction, ecology, population genetics and evolution. In addition, since its rediscovery...
South African Coasts
A celebration of our seas and shores
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
This book showcases the very best of the photography as judged in the Sustainable Seas Trust 2013/14 competition. The extraordinary, prize-winning photographs are accompanied by illuminating essays from leading scientists, sports people and others whose lives are intimately connected with the seas....
by Michael Watkins, Bo Beolens
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This fascinating reference book delves into the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of sharks, rays, skates and chimeras. Each entry offers a concise biography, revealing the hidden stories and facts behind each species’ name.
Full of interesting facts and humorous titbits, the...
Capturing the Commons
Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first...
by George F. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Presenting a stunning array of beauty and biodiversity, the coral reefs of Florida and the Caribbean are part playground, part research lab for the thousands of tourists, divers, and marine scientists who visit them every year. Documenting the wide array of corals at home in the warm waters of the...
by Karen Cross
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
‘Banna and Bree Blown to Mission Beach’ is set in beautiful Clump Mountain National Park in the coastal community of Mission Beach, Australia. Banna and Bree are baboons that visit Mission Beach from Botswana in Africa. They meet some uniquely Australian animals such as a koala, kangaroos, a wombat...
by Catherine Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Lucy’s back—and this time, her plans including saving Sherman and Sherman’s natural habitat.
Lucy loves her best friend, a giant lobster named Sherman. Together they swim, splash, and blurble at their beloved beach. That is, until Lucy finds Sherman tangled and twisted in old fishing...
by Joyce Dunbar
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
'Once, in a place at the bottom of the ocean that is deeper, darker, further, wetter, colder, lonelier . . . than anything you can imagine, lived a piglet squid . . .'
From Joyce Dunbar, author of Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep and illustrator Tim Hopgood, (WOW Said the Owl),...