{"product_id":"national-audubon-society-guide-to-marine-mammals-of-the-world-isbn-9780375411410","title":"National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten by a team of experts and featuring hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, the most authoritative, up-to-date, and accessible information on marine mammals--perfect for your outdoor excursions or your home library.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World \u003c\/i\u003edescribes in fascinating   detail all 120 species of the world's whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea   lions, manatees, Marine and Sea Otters, and the Polar Bear. Organized by the four major groups   of marine mammals—marine fissipeds, pinnipeds, cetaceans, and sirenians—the species   descriptions include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Full-color paintings, color photographs showing appearance in the wild   and illustrating typical behaviors, life history data, range and habitat text and a full-color range   map based on the most current information. Facts about social organization, surface   behaviors, swimming, and diving. Information on mating behavior, breeding, and the   rearing of young. Details about food items and foraging techniques. Estimates of   population in the wild, plus current and historic threats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A general introduction   outlines the evolution and taxonomy of marine mammals, distribution, migration, watching   guidelines, identification techniques, organizations and laws that protect marine   mammals, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introductions to groups include comparative size illustrations,   discussion of behaviors particular to the group, and other unique features.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A useful   illustrated glossary of terms and an index of species names complete the guide.Pieter A. Folkens \u003ci\u003e(illustrator)\u003c\/i\u003e is widely acknowledged as one of the finest illustrators of marine mammals in the world. He has contributed to many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals \u003c\/i\u003e(Academic Press). He has also designed cetaceans for motion pictures and television, including the films \u003ci\u003eStar Trek IV, Flipper, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Free Willy.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a founding board member of the Alaska Whale Foundation, a non-profit marine mammal research and conservation organization, and spends his summers in Alaska studying the feeding ecology of Killer and Humpback Whales. Folkens lives in Benicia, California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRandall R. Reeves \u003ci\u003e(Sperm Whales, Beaked Whales, River Dolphins, Beluga and Narwhal, Ocean Dolphins, Porpoises, Glossary)\u003c\/i\u003e has been involved in marine mammal work for over 25 years, ranging from field studies in the Arctic, the North Atlantic, and the Indus and Amazon Rivers, to archival research on the history of whaling. He co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians \u003c\/i\u003eand edited\u003ci\u003e Conservation and Management of Marine Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e (Smithsonian). Reeves holds a Ph.D. from McGill University, Canada. Since 1997, he has served as chairman of the Cetacean Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Reeves lives in Hudson, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillip J. Clapham \u003ci\u003e(Introduction, Baleen Whales)\u003c\/i\u003e is a leading expert on large whales. He has conducted research on a variety of whale species around the world and has written or contributed to several books, including \u003ci\u003eHumpback Whales\u003c\/i\u003e (Voyageur Press), \u003ci\u003eWhales of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (Voyageur Press), and \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Book of North American Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e (Smithsonian). Clapham earned a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and lives and works in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he directs a research program on large whales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrent S. Stewart \u003ci\u003e(Polar Bear and Otters, Pinnipeds)\u003c\/i\u003e has been studying and writing about marine mammals since the late 1970s. He has published many articles on marine mammals and contributed to several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians.\u003c\/i\u003e He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Stewart is a Senior Research Biologist at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in San Diego, California, and Marine Science and Foreign Affairs Officer with the State Department in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames A. Powell \u003ci\u003e(Sirenians) \u003c\/i\u003eis recognized as an international expert on manatees. For the past thirty years he has conducted field research on sirenians around the world from Florida to the West Indies and Belize, and has spent ten years in remote areas of western Africa studying the West African Manatee. He earned a Ph.D. in Zoology from Cambridge University, England. He is co-chair of the Sirenia Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Powell is the Director for Aquatic Programs for the Wildlife Trust in Sarasota, Florida.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300711551205,"sku":"NP9780375411410","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375411410.jpg?v=1767733480","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/national-audubon-society-guide-to-marine-mammals-of-the-world-isbn-9780375411410","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}