ISBN10: 0865317224, ISBN13: 9780865317222, [publisher: Westview Press Inc] Hardcover First Edition 8vo, i-xii, 643 pp, black and white figures throughout. Grey cloth (no dust wrapper was issued). Some light spotting to the closed top edge but a very good / near fine copy. Book plate and signature of cetacean expert Sidney G Brown. AAS Selected Symposium 76.
[Eastbourne, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1983]

ISBN10: 0865317224, ISBN13: 9780865317222, [publisher: Westview Press] Hardcover Acceptable
[liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1984]

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, Date: 1983. Comprehensive text presents detailed studies on the changing songs of humpback whales, which is now considered evidence for the vocal transmission of a cultural trait of a non-human animal; population dynamics of southern right whales, including the discovery of an unexpected function of callosities; the pod-specific vocalizations of killer whales; the behavior of gray whales and how it relates to tides; behavior and migratory destinations of humpback whales; and several proven benign techniques for studying the biology of free-ranging marine mammals. 643 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the front endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1983. Westview Press ISBN 0865317224 9780865317222 [US]