Author: Rayner, George W.
Title: Whale Marking II: Distribution of Blue, Fin and Humpback Whales Marked from 1932 to 1938.
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948. First edition. Pp. 8; 18 full page maps. 1 text-figure. Publisher's original printed gray wrappers, lg 4to (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). Discovery Reports volume 25. No ownership marks. Blue, fin and humpback whales were tagged with darts that embed in the blubber; these darts are retrieved when the whales were cut apart by commercial whalers. Fine (new) copy..

Keywords: Whales whaling marine mammals mammalogy Cetaceans Cetacea fin whale Balaenoptera physalus finback whale razorback common rorqual distribution blue whale Balaenoptera musculus baleen whales Mysticeti Humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae Rayner


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