Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification
"An excellent addition to the library of any wildlife disease professional, providing all the current information on basic species identification needed to identify, and have a basic understanding of, a marine mammal observed at sea or on the necropsy table. The guide is useful for students, biologists, managers, and veterinarians alike. It stands out from the many other smaller or older field guides to marine mammals currently available because of its breadth of information, its beautiful illustrations, and its carefully constructed dichotomous keys. I thoroughly recommend it to all marine mammal enthusiasts as a quintessential guide to species identification."- Frances Gulland, Director, Marine Mammal Center; Review in theJournal of Wildlife Diseases"This guide is the most comprehensive [among the competition] and, to my mind, the best. . I recommend this comprehensive and up-to-date guide to every budding as well as serious marine mammalogist."- Bernd Wursig, Regents Professor and Chair of the Marine Biology Graduate Program,Texas A&M; University; Review inAquatic Mammals[T]ruly is a comprehensive guide to the identification of the world's marine mammals. . [T]he authors compiled a unique combination of identification tools into a single volume: detailed species accounts, descriptive photographs, dichotomous keys, and trait comparison tables. .Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identificationis the one book that anyone seeking to identify the world's marine mammals-dead or alive-should have on their shelf. . Most helpfully, the text . is supported by a generous number of high-quality illustrations and photographs that show the diagnostic physical and behavioral characteristics of each species from a variety of angles. . [T]he dichotomous keys and comparison tables in the back put this guide on a utilitarian plane above other guides. [It] will be a welcome addition to any library. The authors pooled their vast observational experience to provide its users a single identification guide that is both utilitarian and esthetically pleasing."- Kate Wynne, Fisheries Technology Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks;Review inMarine Mammal Science, published by the Society for Marine Mammalogy