Download or read book Fifth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals November 27 December 1 1983 Boston Mass written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Distribution Records of the Spinner Dolphin Stenella Longirostris and the Pantropical Spotted Dolphin S Attenuata from the Western Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean and Red Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collected Reprints written by Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Mammals written by Peter G.H. Evans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in marine mammals has increased dramatically in the last few decades, as evidenced by the number of books, scientific papers, and conferences devoted to these animals. Nowadays, a conference on marine mammals can attract between one and two thousand scientists from around the world. This upsurge of interest has resulted in a body of knowledge which, in many cases, has identified major conservation problems facing particular species. At the same time, this knowledge and the associated activities of environmental organisations have served to introduce marine mammals to a receptive public, to the extent that they are now perceived by many as the living icons of biodiversity conservation. Much of the impetus for the current interest in marine mammal conservation comes from "Save the Whale" campaigns started in the 1960s by environmental groups around the world, in response to declining whale populations after over-exploitation by humans. This public pressure led to an international moratorium on whaling recommended in 1972 by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, and eventually adopted by the International Whaling Commission ten years later. This moratorium largely holds sway to this day, and further protective measures have included the delimitation of extensive areas of the Indian Ocean (1979) and Southern Ocean (1994) as whale sanctuaries.
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Download or read book Marine Fisheries Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Monitoring of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Monachus Schauinslandi and Captive Maintenance Project for Female Pups at Kure Atoll 1987 written by Michelle L. Reddy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Marine Mammals written by Sam H. Ridgway and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three separate papers, each describing a single species.
Download or read book The Pinnipeds written by Marianne Riedman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the adaptation, evolution, classification, distribution, ecology, behavior, communication, and learning of seals, sea lions and walruses.
Download or read book Indexed Bibliography of Northeast Fisheries Science Center Publications and Reports for 1990 91 written by Jon A. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Behaviour of Pinnipeds written by D. Renouf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We teach our students of behavioural science that one first defines a research problem, and then the most appropriate animal is selected to investigate hypotheses. The reverse order of events is improper: a particular class of animals should not be studied for its own sake. In the case of the Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walruses) the organism and the problem are essentially the same. The research questions presented in this volume in one way or another relate to survival in two worlds, the ocean for foraging, and the terrain at its edge or frozen above it for breeding. The evolution of Pinniped behaviour and the mechanisms which underlie it are a consequence of having to cope with two seemingly incompatible sets of environmental constraints. The physiological adaptations for concomitant functioning in two media with very different physical characteristics have produced correlated behav ioural modifications. The energetic demands of reproduction and foraging are idiosyncratic because each activity occurs on opposite sides of the air/water interface. As a result, the mating system must reconcile aquatic design for such functions as locomotion and thermoregulation, with the terrestrial requirements for successful pupping. Similarly, the ecology of this dual habitat prescribes the rules governing the behaviour of the neonate and its interactions with its mother.