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Early one Friday morning in December 2006 I went with some friends to see the body of a sperm whale that had washed up at Roseisle beach. Roseisle is about a forty-minute drive from the village of Spey Bay, where I lived during fieldwork. This area of Scotland features, amongst other unusual wildlif...
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crprincetonpr:10.23943/princeton/9780691167480.003.0001 2024-06-02T08:14:51+00:00 Prologue The Sperm Whale’s Teeth Dow, Katharine 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691167480.003.0001 en eng Princeton University Press Making a Good Life ISBN 9780691167480 9781400881062 book-chapter 2016 crprincetonpr https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691167480.003.0001 2024-05-07T14:14:58Z Early one Friday morning in December 2006 I went with some friends to see the body of a sperm whale that had washed up at Roseisle beach. Roseisle is about a forty-minute drive from the village of Spey Bay, where I lived during fieldwork. This area of Scotland features, amongst other unusual wildlife, a resident population of bottlenose dolphins, and sightings of whales and dolphins are quite common in the area, though to see a sperm whale is rare, as they usually keep to the open seas.... Book Part Sperm whale Princeton University Press |
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