whale: Bibliography

See R. Ellis, The Book of Whales (1980) and Dolphins and Porpoises (1989); L. Watson, Sea Guide to Whales of the World (1981); D. G. Burnett, The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century (2012); H. Whitehead and L. Rendell, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins (2014).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Classification
• Whaling
• Toothless Whales
• Toothed Whales
• Types of Whales
• Characteristics and Behavior
• Bibliography

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