The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
By: Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
Contributors: Rendell, Luke, 1973- author
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780226895314
Subjects: Whales; Animal communication; Social behavior in animals; Dolphins
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture in the ocean?; title: Culture?; title: Mammals of the ocean; title: Song of the whale; title: What the dolphins do; title: Mother cultures of the large toothed whales; title: How do they do it?; title: Is this evidence for culture?; title: How the whales got culture; title: Whale culture and whale genes; title: The implications of culture : ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation; title: The cultural whales : how we see them and how we treat them; title: This book came from and is built on...