Title: The Gray whale :
Authors: Jones, Mary Lou.; Swartz, Steven L.; Leatherwood, Stephen.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Academic Press,
Physical description: xxiv, 600 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: Collection of papers under the headings: Evolution, fossils and subfossil remains; Historical relationships and exploitation; Demography, distribution and migration; Biology and behaviour.
Contents: The fossil record and phyletic relationships of gray whales / Lawrence G. Barnes and Samuel A. McLeod -- Atlantic gray whales / James G. Mead and Edward D. Mitchell -- History of gray whales in Japan / Hideo Omura -- Aboriginal whaling from the Aleutian Islands to Washington State / Beth Laura O'Leary -- Gray whales and the aborigines of the Pacific Northwest : the history of aboriginal whaling / Igor I. Krupnick -- Shore whaling for gray whales along the coast of the Californias / Hazel Sayers -- Nineteenth century gray whaling : grounds, catches and kills, practices and depletion of the whale population / David A. Henderson -- Modern commercial pelagic whaling for gray whales / Randall R. Reeves -- Assessing gray whale abundance : a review / Stephen B. Reilly -- Census of gray whales at Unimak Pass, Alaska : November-December 1977-1979 / David J. Rugh. Distribution and migration of gray whales in Alaska / Howard W. Braham -- Gray whales off Vancouver Island, British Columbia / James D. Darling -- Gray whale migrations along the Oregon coast, 1978-1981 / Denise L. Herzing and Bruce R. Mate -- Demography and phenology of gray whales and evaluation of whale-watching activities in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico / Mary Lou Jones and Steven L. Swartz -- Reoccupation of Laguna Guerrero Negro, Baja California, Mexico, by gray whales / Peter J. Bryant, Christopher M. Lafferty, and Susan K. Lafferty -- Migration corridors of gray whales along the central California coast, 1980-1982 / M. Michael Poole -- Soviet studies of the distribution and numbers of the gray whale in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, from 1968-1982 / Alfred Antonovich Berzin -- A review of gray whale feeding ecology / Mary Nerini -- Foraging of the gray whale along the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia / Laurie D. Murison, Debra J. Murie, Karen R. Morin, and Jeannette da Silva Curiel. A review of Russian research on the biology and commercial whaling of the gray whale / Alexey V. Yablokov and Luydmila S. Bogoslovskaya -- Investigations of gray whales taken in the Chukchi coastal waters, U.S.S.R. / Sergei Alekseevich Blokhin -- Sound production by the gray whale and ambient noise levels in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico / Marilyn E. Dahlheim, H. Dean Fisher, and James D. Schempp -- Gray whales in the Beaufort, Chucki, and Bering Seas : distribution and sound production / Sue E. Moore and Donald K. Ljungblad -- Dive characteristics and movements of radio-tagged gray whales in San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico / James T. Harvey and Bruce R. Mate -- Ocean movements of radio-tagged gray whales / Bruce R. Mate and James T. Harvey.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cetacea--Pacific Coast (North America); Gray whale.; Whaling--Pacific Coast (North America)