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Spying on Whales - The Past, Present and Future of the World's Largest Animals (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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Spying on Whales - The Past, Present and Future of the World's Largest Animals (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving
species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for
thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies.
They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, awe and affection
- yet we know hardly anything about them. Whales tend to only enter
our awareness when they die, struck by a ship or stranded in the
surf. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-like creatures into
animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000
pounds, live 200 years and roam entire ocean basins. Yet despite
centuries of observing whales, we know little about their
evolutionary past. Palaeontologist Nick Pyenson takes us to the
ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of whale research as he
searches for the answers to some of our biggest questions about
these graceful giants. His rich storytelling takes us deep inside
the Smithsonian's unparalleled fossil collection, to frigid
Antarctic waters, and to the arid desert of Chile, where scientists
race against time to document the largest fossil whalebone site on
earth. Spying on Whales is an illuminating story of scientific
discovery that brings readers closer to the most enigmatic and
beloved animals of all time.
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