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Biology · Marine Biology

Marine Mammals

A topic within Marine Biology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Biology.

Reading on Marine Mammals

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2 works

Paper1971

Songs of Humpback Whales

Roger S. Payne & Scott McVay

Shows that humpback whale vocalisations are not random noise but long, structured, repeating songs, a finding that reshaped how whale communication was studied and helped drive public support for whale conservation.

Book1999

Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology

Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich & Kit M. Kovacs

Organises whales, seals and sirenians around the shared engineering problem of returning to the sea, tracing how each lineage independently re-solved locomotion, diving and thermoregulation.

Other topics in Marine Biology