The Bowhead Whale

The Bowhead Whale
Author: John J. Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1993
Genre: Balaenidae
ISBN:

This book is intended to be a cohesive species account of the bowhead whale. Chapters detail the Bering Sea population, evolutionary relationships and classification, anatomy and physiology, behavior, foods and feeding ecology, reproduction, morbidity and mortality, distribution and movement, population size and dynamics, commercial whaling, subsistence whaling, and the influence of man and his activities.