Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us Morton Alexandra Paperback
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us Morton Alexandra Paperback In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and…
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Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us Morton Alexandra Paperback
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. She recorded the varied language of mating, childbirth, and even grief after the birth of a stillborn calf. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the tank of two killer whales.
Her recordings of the whales have led her to a deeper understanding of the mystery of whale echolocation, the vocal At the same time she made the startling observation that the whales were inventing wonderful synchronized movements, a behavior that was soon recognized as a defining characteristic of orca society.In 1984, Alexandra moved to a remote bay in British Columbia to continue her research with wild orcas.
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