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Site Of Human-dolphin Partnership Becomes Protected Area (June 23, 2006) -- The government of Myanmar has established a protected area for, of all things, a partnership between fishermen and a small, gray beakless dolphin with a knack for herding fish into nets, according to ... > full story

Ecologists Home In On How Sperm Whales Find Their Prey (May 29, 2006) -- Ecologists have at last got a view of sperm whales' behaviour during their long, deep dives, thanks to the use of recently developed electronic "dtags." According to new research published in the ... > full story

How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans (May 23, 2006) -- When ancient whales finally parted company with the last remnants of their legs about 35 million years ago, a relatively sudden genetic event may have crowned an eons-long shrinking process. An ... > full story

Dolphins At Risk (May 17, 2006) -- Pile driving and industrial noise may adversely affect dolphin behaviour, communication and breeding, according to a scientific paper in CIWEM's Water and Environment ... > full story

Navy Sonar Exercises May Have Played Role In Stranding Of Melon-headed Whales In Hawaii (April 28, 2006) -- The NOAA Fisheries Service released the final report today on the mysterious stranding event of melon-headed whales off the coast of Hawaii in July 2004. Although the exact cause of the stranding is ... > full story

Yale Researchers Find Environmental Toxins Disruptive To Hearing In Mammals (April 11, 2006) -- Yale School of Medicine researchers have new data showing chloride ions are critical to hearing in mammals, which builds on previous research showing a chemical used to keep barnacles off boats might ... > full story

Warbling Whales Speak A Language All Their Own (March 24, 2006) -- Scientists have used the mathematics of information theory to confirm that the songs of humpback whales have a complex syntax containing the elements of ... > full story

Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (February 22, 2006) -- Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to perform scientific missions ranging from monitoring climate change to mapping the deep ... > full story

El Nino Events Affect Whale Breeding (January 10, 2006) -- New research shows that global climate processes are affecting southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) in the South Atlantic. A thirty-year study by an international team of scientists found a ... > full story

Diversity Of Marine Life In Gulf Of Maine Much Greater Than Previously Thought (January 5, 2006) -- The Gulf of Maine Program of the Census of Marine Life, with the Huntsman Marine Science Center of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, announced today the first count of known marine species in the Gulf of ... > full story

Research Tracks Whales By Listening To Sounds (January 2, 2006) -- Researchers have developed a new tool to help them study endangered whales -- autonomous hydrophones that can be deployed in the ocean to record the unique clicks, pulses and calls of different whale ... > full story

Scientists Solve Mystery Of The 'Unicorn' Whale (December 23, 2005) -- Once the subject of mythical accounts of magical power, the helix-shaped tusk of the narwhal, or "unicorn" whale has proved to be an extraordinary sensory organ, according to a team of researchers ... > full story

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Toothed whale -- The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) form a suborder of the cetaceans. As the name suggests, the suborder is characterized by having ... > full article

Porpoise -- The porpoises are small cetaceans of the family Phocoenidae; they are related to whales and dolphins. They are however distinct from dolphins, although the word "porpoise" is often used to refer to ... > full article

Baleen whale -- The baleen whales, also called whalebone whales or great whales, form a suborder of the order cetacea. The distinguishing feature between this suborder and the toothed whales is that baleen whales ... > full article

Whale song -- Whale song is the sound made by whales to communicate. The word "song" is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the ... > full article

Whale -- Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea. Whales are broadly classed as predators, but their food ranges from microscopic plankton to very large ... > full article

Sei Whale -- The Sei Whale is a large baleen whale, and as such is one of the largest animals in the world. Following large-scale hunting of Sei Whales in the Southern Ocean during middle part of the twentieth ... > full article

Bowhead Whale -- The Bowhead Whale, also known as Greenland Right Whale or Arctic Whale, is a marine mammal of the order Cetacea. Bowhead Whales are the only baleen whales that spend their entire lives in and around ... > full article

Dolphin -- Dolphins are aquatic mammals. Dolphins have a fusiform body, adapted for fast swimming. Dolphins are widely believed to be amongst the most intelligent of all ... > full article

Fin Whale -- The Fin Whale, also called the Finback Whale, is a mammal which belongs to the baleen whales suborder. It is the second largest whale and also the second largest animal ever to have lived, after the ... > full article

Right whale -- The right whales are marine mammals belonging to the family Balaenidae. Right whales were named because whalers thought they were the 'right' whale to hunt, for several ... > full article

Biology : The Unity and Diversity of Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart are among the most successful authors in introductory, biological science instruction because of their lively approach, engaging writing style, current coverage of the ... > read more

Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do ... > read more

Applied Behavior Analysis for Teachers (7th Edition)
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The Singing Life of Birds : The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong
Listen to birds sing as you"ve never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of wrens and ... > read more

Blue Book of Gun Values, 26th Edition (Blue Book of Gun Values)
Now with over one millon books in circulation, this newest 26th edition of the Blue Book of Gun Values once again sets the industry standard for both firearms information and up-to-date pricing. Now ... > read more

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable ... > read more

Consumer Behavior, Eighth Edition
With a strong empirical and market segmentation approach, this book focuses on how the Internet has changed the way people obtain information about potential purchases, giving readers the most ... > read more

Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious (Includes Bonus Audio/Data CD)
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Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
How is the human brain like the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-László Barabási and he'll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected via complex but ... > read more

 
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