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The cultural lives of whales and dolphins / Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell.

Whitehead, Hal, (author.). Rendell, Luke, 1973- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780226895314 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0226895319 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-398) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Culture in the ocean? -- Culture? -- Mammals of the ocean -- Song of the whale -- What the dolphins do -- Mother cultures of the large toothed whales -- How do they do it? -- Is this evidence for culture? -- How the whales got culture -- Whale culture and whale genes -- The implications of culture : ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation -- The cultural whales : how we see them and how we treat them -- This book came from and is built on...
Subject:
Whales.
Dolphins.
Social behavior in animals.
Animal communication.

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