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Marine mammals
43 pages :

colour illustrations.
Contents: What is a cetacean? -- Mysticetes: cetaceans with baleen plates -- Odontocetes: cetaceans with teeth -- Fins -- Strange teeth -- Breathing -- Eating with baleen plates -- Hunting in organized groups -- At rest -- Home -- Migrating -- On the surface -- Birth and growth -- Living together -- Gentle giants -- The ocean choir -- Listening to cetaceans -- Dying -- Cetacean threats -- Whale tales.
Summary: Meet the cetaceans, the world's most mysterious mammals. This guide is bursting with facts about whales, dolphins and porpoises. Learn how they breathe through blowholes, sing to each other, and travel vast distances.