Research on dolphins / edited by M.M. Bryden, Richard Harrison
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- 197831
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- Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford, 1986
- xiv, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0198576064
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- PART I: Anatomy and Physiology
- 1. The Epidermis of Odontocetes: A View from Within
- 2. Characteristics of the Skin of Neophocaena Phocaenoides from the Changjiang (Yangtse) River, China
- 3. Diving Dolphins
- 4. Dolphin Brain Size
- 5. Evolutionary Aspects of Cortical Organization in the Dolphin Brain
- 6. Ultrastructure of Encapsulated Mechanoreceptor Organs in the Region of the Nares
- 7. Bronchial Morphometry of the Upper Conductive Zones of Four Odontocete Cetaceans
- 8. Kidney and Water Metabolism
- 9. Gonads and Reproduction
- Part II: Dolphins in Captivity
- 10. From the Ocean to the Pool
- 11. Husbandry and Training of Captive Dolphins
- 12. Water Management
- Part III: Dolphins in the Oceans
- 13. Age and Growth
- 14. Observations on Small Cetaceans in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea: 1978-1982
- 15. Line Transect Sampling of Dolphin Populations
- 16. Cephalopods in the Diet of Odontocetes
- 17. Pathobiology of Small Cetaceans Stranded Along Southern California Beaches
- 18. The Acoustic Faculty of Dolphins
- 19. The Cetacean Magnetic Sense
- Evidence from Stranding
- 20. The Behaviour of Lipotes Vexillifer and Neophocaena Phocaenoides in the Changjiang River and in Captivity in China
- Part IV: Evolution
- 21. Geographic Variations and Biology of the Pacific White-Sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus Obliquidens, in the North Eastern Pacific.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Subject:
- Dolphins
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