THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WHALEBONE WHALES

• Published in: Biological Reviews
• Main Author: MACKINTOSH, N. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1946
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Greenland; Pacific; Rorqual; The Antarctic; The Shoals; Antarc*; Euphausia superba; Meganyctiphanes norvegica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.1946.tb00453.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-185X.1946.tb00453.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1946.tb00453.x

Summary (1) The whaling industry has provided both the facilities and the stimulus for modern research on the general biology of whales. The principal methods of investigation are ( a ) anatomical examination, ( b ) observations at sea, ( c ) the marking of whales, ( d ) analysis of the statistics o...