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Full Description
PreliminaryThis volume provides comprehensive overviews of each European cetacean species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European cetaceans and will appeal to academics, students and professionals in mammal research.
Contents
Balaena mysticetus.- Eubalaena glacialis.- Balaenoptera borealis.- Balaenoptera acutorostrata.- Balaenoptera physalus.- Balaenoptera musculus.- Megaptera novaeangliae.- Delphinus delphis.- Globicephala melas.- Grampus griseus.- Lagenodelphis hosei.- Lagenorhynchus acutus.- Lagenorhynchus albirostris.- Orcinus orca.- Peponocephala electra.- Pseudorca crassidens.- Sousa chinensis.- Stenella coeruleoalba.- Steno bredanensis.- Tursiops truncates.- Eschrichtius robustus.- Delphinapterus leucas.- Monodon Monoceros.- Phocoena phocoena.- Kogia breviceps.- Kogia sima.- Physeter catodon.- Hyperoodon ampullatus.- Mesoplodon europaeus.- Mesoplodon densirostris.- Mesoplodon bidens.- Mesoplodon mirus.- Ziphius cavirostris.