Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345442881 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Orca researcher Morton describes her more than 20 years studying the movements and sounds of orcas, the mammals, actually dolphins, commonly known as killer whales, or, regionally, blackfish. . Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. In later chapters, her focus turns to the impact of salmon farms on the coastal ecosystem. After getting her ears wet cataloguing the recordings John Lilly (the author of Man and Dolphin) made of his controversial language experiments with dolphins, Morton turned her own hydrophone on the captive orca pa
She recorded the varied language of mating, childbirth, and even grief after the birth of a stillborn calf. At the same time she made the startling observation that the whales were inventing wonderful synchronized movements, a behavior that was soon recognized as a defining characteristic of orca society. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the tank of two killer whales. A fascinating study of the profound communion between humans and whales, this book will op
A psychologist said She did much more than listen.. This well written book describes the author's fascination with all animals and her willingness to travel far to observe and research killer whales. In addition to providing her history and knowledge of the whales, her use of language is delightful.. Eyes of the Raincoast Neil Frazer This is the autobiography (so far) of whale researcher Alexandra Morton who came to the remote Broughton Archipelago in 1984 to study orcas and was herself woven by nature into the warp and woof of that amazing place. While telling a fascinating story the book imparts a great deal of knowledge in so painless a manner that we hardly notice. We learn, for example, that there are three kinds of orcas: "residents," who eat mostly fish; ". Loved it L. Haverstock I didn't realize until I read the book how drawn I am to marine biology esp. whales. She starts in Malibu with Dr. Lilly and moves to the old Marineland where she listens herself and ends up on Vancouver Island where pods were just beginning to be studied.I expected something more New Age. She sticks to well-documented ideas about orca's social behavior. When she feels things beyond what is scientificly proved, she says that this is