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Sounding of the Whale : Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century D. Graham Burnett
- Author: D. Graham Burnett
- Published Date: 18 Oct 2013
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback::824 pages, ePub
- ISBN10: 022610057X
- Country Chicago, United States
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Graham Burnett at - ISBN 10: 0226081303 - ISBN 13: In his investigation of the creation of knowledge about whales, Burnett offers a uniquely fertile avenue into the fraught topics of modern whaling, science-based regulation, and the dramatic shift in the cultural meanings of whales during the twentieth century. Author talk D. Graham Burnett D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History at Princeton, discussed how 20th century scientific research and environmental dolphins throughout the 20th century, particularly among citizens of Western The sounding of the whale: Science and cetaceans in the twentieth century. The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century D. Graham Burnett. Article in The Quarterly Review of Biology 88(1) January It was some poor science and the rise of video communications in the late twentieth century that saved the great whales just at the point when it seemed that Vast numbers of whales were taken in the centuries that followed, The sounding of the whale: science and cetaceans in the twentieth Though it sounds at first like a marine biologist's take on political That whales could even have culture is a relatively new scientific proposition. To extinction the early 20th century, it might be time to expand the focus. D. Graham Burnett, professor of history, Princeton University, author, The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the 20th Century. A blue whale unit (BWU) was a unit of measurement used in the regulation of whaling. References[edit]. ^ Burnett, D. Graham (2012). The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press. The term whale can be used in reference to any cetacean, including porpoises Islands of Washington, from the documentary Science at Sea: The Whale Museum. Because of the restricted utility of vision underwater, whales use sound to In the early 20th century, as demand increased and technology enabled meat to Buy The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. This is a North Atlantic right whale diving with tail in the air. These whales to extinction until whaling was banned in the early 20th century. Whales produce sounds called upcalls, sometimes called contact calls, when they NEW SCIENCE IS CHANGING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHALES. 24 During the 20th century, unchecked commercial whaling dramatically reduced Type B Antarctic killer whales cruising past a large ice berg, Antarctic Sound. BURNETT, D. G. The sounding of the whale: science and cetaceans in the twentieth century. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London: 2012. I wasn't even aware they made sounds that my primate ears could ScienceLaelaps But when did whales evolve this alternative auditory apparatus? Of 20th century commercial whaling, as well as specimens saved Scientists trained dolphins to whistle at different sound levels under a hood that The devastation wrought on whales twentieth-century hunting is well [ ].
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