Bibliograph

Orca, the whale called killer, Erich Hoyt

Type

Label

Orca, the whale called killer, Erich Hoyt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Orca

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1090141226

Responsibility statement

Erich Hoyt

Sub title

the whale called killer

Summary

"This revised fifth edition includes Hoyt's original account of his trips to the waters off Vancouver Island in the 1970s to help make a documentary about the killer whale, about which little was known then. Exciting new chapters bring readers up-to-date on the revolution in public awareness and killer whale research that has taken place since. Now a world-renowned expert on whales and dolphins, Hoyt shares orca wisdom gleaned from decades of additional field study in the Russian Far East as well as return trips to Canada's West Coast to visit with the descendants of the killer whales the author encountered 45 years ago."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

First summer -- Killer whale country -- The sonic creature -- The predator and people -- The whale census -- Swimming with whales -- Sleeping whales -- Fall/winter -- Captives -- Second summer -- A killer whale day -- Stubbs -- Third summer -- The rubbing beach -- In later years : a future for orcas in the Northwest?

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