- Find out more about the contents of Volume 4 by reading the introduction.
- This volume also includes a Special Chapter about Sea Mammal Conservation, by Roderic B. Mast, Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez and Arlo H. Hemphill.
Families covered in this volume are: | |
Family Otariidae (Eared Seals) | Marc Webber |
Family Odobenidae (Walrus) | Brent Stewart |
Family Phocidae (Earless Seals) | Brent Stewart |
Family Balaenidae (Right and Bowhead Whales) | Barbara Curry & Robert Brownell Jr |
Family Neobalaenidae (Pygmy Right Whale) | Catherine Kemper |
Family Eschrichtiidae (Gray Whale) | Steven Swartz |
Family Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) | Thomas Deméré |
Family Physeteridae (Sperm Whale) | Sarah Mesnick |
Family Kogiidae (Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales) | Donald McAlpine |
Family Ziphiidae (Beaked Whales) | Colin MacLeod |
Family Platanistidae (South Asian River Dolphin) | Gill Braulik |
Family Iniidae (Amazon River Dolphins) | Vera da Silva & Anthony Martin |
Family Lipotidae (Baiji) | Brian Smith |
Family Pontoporiidae (Franciscana) | Eduardo Secchi |
Family Monodontidae (Narwhal and Beluga) | Pierre Richard |
Family Delphinidae (Ocean Dolphins) | John Wang, Kimberly Riehl & Sarah Dungan |
Family Phocoenidae (Porpoises) | Thomas Jefferson |
Family Trichechidae (Manatees) | Thomas O’Shea |
Family Dugongidae (Dugong) | Helene Marsh |
- 30 colour plates
- 667 colour photographs
- 147 distribution maps
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