Research Catalog

Title

Whales, dolphins, and porpoises : [proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cetacean Research, held in Washington, D.C., August 1963] / edited by Kenneth S. Norris.

Author

International Symposium on Cetacean Research (1st : 1963 : Washington, D.C.)

Publication

Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1966.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Norris, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Stafford)
• American Institute of Biological Sciences, host institution.

Description

xv, 789 pages : illustrations, charts, maps; 26 cm

Subjects

• Actes de congrès
• Conference papers and proceedings
• proceedings (reports)
• Congress
• Cetacea > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Symposium held in Washington, D.C., in August, 1963; conducted by the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Chairman's introduction to First Session of International Symposium on Cetacean Research / L. Harrison Matthews -- Comments on the Delphinoidea / F.C. Fraser -- Diagnoses and distributions of beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon known from North American waters / Joseph Curtis Moore -- A synopsis of the genus Kogia (pygmy sperm whales) / Charles O. Handley Jr. -- Bryde's whale in the Northwest Pacific / Hideo Omura -- The pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda, a new subspecies from the Antarctic / Tadayoshi Ichihara -- The distribution of Balaenopteridae in the North Atlantic Ocean / Åge Jonsgård -- The distribution of southern blue and fin whales / N.A. Mackintosh -- The seasonal migratory cycle of humpback whales / William H. Dawbin -- Distribution and migration of the larger cetaceans in the North Pacific as shown by Japanese whaling results / Masaharu Nishiwaki -- A discussion of rarities among the smaller cetaceans caught in Japanese waters / Masaharu Nishiwaki -- The anatomy of the spinal cord of the Pacific striped dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens / N.J. Flanigan -- Specialized features of the cetacean brain / Lawrence Kruger -- Some functional and structural characteristics of cetacean flippers and flukes / William J.L. Felts -- Functional morphology of the reproductive system in Cetacea / E.J. Slijper -- Anatomy and physiology of the outer and middle ear in cetaceans / Peter E. Purves -- Elective regulation of the circulation in diving animals / Laurence Irving -- Thermal regulation in cetaceans / John Kanwisher and Gunnar Sundnes -- Hydrodynamic analysis of cetacean performance / Thomas G. Lang -- Pickup, analysis, and interpretation of underwater acoustic data / Robert S. Gales -- Telemetering physiological information from within cetaceans, and the applicability of ultrasound to understanding in vivo structure and performance / R. Stuart Mackay -- Listening to cetaceans / William A. Watkins -- Sea animal-locomotion and fish-propulsion studies / George G. Silberberg -- Instrument packaging and telemetry / James M. Snodgrass -- Acoustic-video techniques for the observation of cetaceans / John C. Steinberg -- Instrumentation for ecological studies / Winston H. Starks -- Sonic-ultrasonic emissions of the bottlenose dolphin / John C. Lilly -- Physeter clicks / Richard H. Backus and William E. Schevill -- Cetacean communication : small-group experiment / John J. Dreher -- Information in the human whistled language and sea mammal whistling / René-Guy Busnel -- Problems in cetacean and other mammalian communication / Gregory Bateson -- Listening underwater : thoughts on sound and cetacean hearing / F.W. Reysenbach de Haan -- Navigation in Cetacea / W.H. Dudok van Heel -- Acoustic signals of the pilot whale Globicephala melaena and of the porpoises Delphinus delphis and Phocoena phocoena / René-Guy Busnel and Albin Dziedzic -- Round table: Practical problems -- Behavior of the sperm whale, Physeter catodon L. / David K. Caldwell, Melba C. Caldwell, and Dale W. Rice -- Behavior of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) : social interactions in a captive colony / Margaret C. Tavolga -- Visual discrimination and problem solving in a bottlenose dolphin / Winthrop N. Kellogg and Charles E. Rice -- Epimeletic (care-giving) behavior in Cetacea / Melba C. Caldwell and David K. Caldwell.

ISBN

• 0520032837
• 9780520032835

LCCN

65021983

OCLC

• ocm23354259
• 23354259
• SCSB-2046649

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library