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• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• How to use this book
• The challenges of identification
• Introduction to the 14 cetacean families
• Information for working at sea
• Cetacean topography
• Barnacles to whale lice
• Quick ID guides
• Bow-riding dolphins and porpoises
• Identifying whales by their flukes
• Identifying whales by their blows
• North Atlantic Ocean
• South Atlantic Ocean
• North Pacific Ocean
• South Pacific Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Southern Ocean
• Right and bowhead whales (family Balaenidae)
• Pygmy right whale (family Neobalaenidae)
• Grey whale (family Eschrichtiidae)
• Rorquals (family Balaenopteridae)
• Sperm whales (families Physeteridae, Kogiidae)
• Narwhal and beluga (family Monodontidae)
• Beaked whales (family Ziphiidae)
• Blackfish (family Delphinidae)
• Shorter-beaked oceanic dolphins (family Delphinidae)
• Longer-beaked oceanic dolphins (family Delphinidae)
• River dolphins (families Platanistidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae, Lipotidae)
• Porpoises (family Phocoenidae)
• Caring for whales, dolphins and porpoises
• Glossary
• Species checklist
• Conversion units
• Sources and resources
• Artists’ biographies
• Acknowledgements
• Image credits
• eCopyright