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Author: William Nigel Bonner Publisher: Facts on File ISBN: 9780816057177 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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"Seals and Sea Lions of the World covers a fascinating group of mammals whose habitat is aquatic and whose limbs are fully adapted for swimming rather than for land locomotion. The aquatic environment and the remoteness of their habitats make seals, sea lions, and walruses difficult to study. Yet, encounters with these species have produced a great interest in their past, present, and future." -- Cover.
Author: W. Nigel Bonner Publisher: Blandford Press ISBN: 9780713727883 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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They're at the center of the controversy about how to balance ecology and the economy. Desired for their fur, the bane of fishermen, and appealing enough to evoke in sometimes sentimental response in humans, fur seals, sea lions, walruses, and phocid seals comprise a fascinating and unusual group. Special attention focuses on their highly unusual anatomy, with limbs adapted fully to their aquatic environments.
Author: Andrew Cleave Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers ISBN: 9781422243091 Category : Sea lions Languages : en Pages : 0
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SEALS & SEA LIONS are found in all the world's oceans, although they are at their most abundant in the coldest regions. The warmer seas such as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean have only a few left. Some have even become isolated in fresh water; the Baikal seal lives in a vast freshwater lake far from any other seals and endures some of the harshest winter conditions on Earth. From seals to sea lions, as well as the walruses and manatees, is a pictorial celebration of these engaging mammals who have adapted to life both on land and in the water under a variety of different climates and conditions. Covered in detail are adaptations to life in water, streamlining and movement, keeping warm, molting, the senses, and descriptions of the specific characteristics of the various species and races. Illuminating in both words and remarkable pictures, SEALS & SEA LIONS is just one title in the acclaimed Creatures of the Ocean series. For those who want to delve into the amazing and sometimes mysterious world of ocean life, these books are a wonderful resource filled with scientific fact and beautiful photography.
Author: Todd J. Braje Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520948971 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 329
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For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently and provides a unique lens for understanding the human and ecological past. Archaeological research is also emerging as a crucial source of information on contemporary environmental issues as we improve our understanding of the ancient abundance, ecology, and natural history of these species. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume brings together archaeologists, biologists, and other scientists to consider how archaeology can inform the conservation and management of pinnipeds and other marine mammals along the Pacific Coast.
Author: Judith Hodge Publisher: Barron's Educational Series ISBN: 9780764112171 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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These unusually handsome books are dramatic photographic essays for young readers. Full-color photos fill every page, showing animals in their natural habitats. Books are filled with facts and make fine introductions to nature studies that can be used in classrooms. But volumes in this series are also a delight to read -- and nature-loving kids will want to have copies all their own. The stunning photography in each volume brilliantly captures the ambience of our planet's vast oceans, and of the creatures that inhabit them.These interesting aquatic mammals can be found in many parts of the world, but are most common in cold coastal waters. Kids see these animals in their natural environments.
Author: David Miller Publisher: ISBN: 9781900455466 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 72
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Whilst the minke whale is the world's most abundant whale, it is also the most persecuted of the baleen whales. Hoelzel and Stern provide an illustrated study of what is currently known about this relatively solitary whale and its behaviour.
Author: Nigel Bonner Publisher: ISBN: 9780756769833 Category : Languages : en Pages : 224
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Covers that fascinating group of animals whose evolution into their present forms and lifestyles seems almost contradictory. While seals, sea lions and walruses are mammals, their habitat is an aquatic one, their limbs fully adapted for swimming rather than land locomotion. This book describes and illustrates the various families of the order Pinnipedia -- fur seals, sea lions, walruses and the phocid seals. Evolution, classification, distribution, life-cycles, zoology and their current status and future are all discussed, as well as the question of their relationship with humans. Examines controversial topics such as conflicts between seals and fishing and culling and the fur trade. 100 color photos, detailed diagrams and maps. Comprehensive!
Author: Roger Kirkwood Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 0643109846 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 211
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Fur seals and sea lions are charismatic, large carnivores that engage us with both their skill and playful antics. Although all species in Australian waters were harvested to near extinction 200 years ago, fur seals are recovering and are now common in near-shore waters across southern Australia. Sea lions, however, are endangered. Their populations appear not to have recovered like fur seals and are declining at some locations. Fur seals and sea lions are important top level predators and play an important role in Australia’s temperate marine ecosystems. Key threats they currently face relate to human activities, particularly interactions with fisheries. This book outlines the comparative evolutionary ecology, biology, life-history, behaviour, conservation status, threats, history of human interactions and latest research on the three species of otariids that live in the waters of southern Australia: the Australian fur seal, New Zealand fur seal and Australian sea lion. It also includes brief descriptions of Antarctic and Subantarctic seals that occupy the Antarctic pack-ice and remote Australian territories of Macquarie Island and Heard Island.
Author: William Nigel Bonner
Author: W. Nigel Bonner
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