Whales and dolphins : cognition, culture, conservation and human perceptions

Description

Content: Why whales, why now? / Philippa Brakes -- Impressions : whales and human relationships in myth, tradition and law / Stuart Harrop -- Whales of the Pacific / Viliamu Iese and Cara Miller -- The journey towards whale conservation in Latin America / Miguel Iñíguez -- Whales and the USA / Naomi A. Rose [and others] -- Whales in the balance : to touch or to kill? A view of Caribbean attitudes towards whales / Nathalie Ward -- The British and the whales / Mark Peter Simmonds -- Whales in Norway / Siri Martinsen -- Of whales, whaling and whale watching in Japan : a conversation / Jun Morikawa and Erich Hoyt -- A contemporary view of the International Whaling Commission / Richard Cowan -- The nature of whales and dolphins / Liz Slooten -- Brain structure and intelligence in cetaceans / Lori Marino -- Communication / Paul Spong -- Lessons from dolphins / Toni Frohoff -- Highly interactive behaviour of inquisitive dwarf minke whales / Alastair Birtles and Arnold Mangott -- The cultures of whales and dolphins / Hal Whitehead -- Whales and dolphins on a rapidly changing planet / Mark Peter Simmonds and Philippa Brakes -- From conservation to protection : charting a new conservation ethic for cetaceans / Philippa Brakes and Claire Bass -- What is it like to be a dolphin? / Thomas I. White -- Thinking whales and dolphins / Philippa Brakes and Mark Peter Simmonds.