In this updated edition, award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into the field for an intimate encounter with 93 species of cetacean

A guidebook to the many different species of whales, dolphins and porpoises that describes cetacean behavior and habitats.

'Everyone who loves the sea and what's in it should own this book.' Bill Bryson From the blue whale to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, this handbook is the m

Covers anatomy, behavior, evolution, reproduction, intelligence, social orders, methods of communication and rearing of their young.