Narwhal : revealing an arctic legend

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Narwhal : revealing an arctic legend

edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Martin T. Nweeia

IPI Press , Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of NaturaI History, Smithsonian Institution, 2017

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"This book is the companion to the exhibit, 'Narwhal: revealing an arctic legend' at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, opening August 2017."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index

Contents of Works

  • 1. What is a whale?
  • 2. The universally beloved unicorn
  • 3. Narwhal biology: an overview
  • Listening to narwhals
  • The physics of flukes
  • 4. The extraordinary narwhal tooth
  • Whale in the net!
  • Making sense of the tusk
  • 5. Narwhal DNA
  • Why sequence whole genomes?
  • The narwhal genome initiative: a progress report
  • 6. Deep time: the narwhal and beluga fossil record
  • Narwhals and climate
  • 7. Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit knowledge and modern life
  • Nunavut government symbols
  • 8. Inuit and narwhal
  • 9. Inuit contributions to narwhal knowledge
  • 10. Climate and the changing Arctic
  • Narwhals and the global mercury issue
  • As goes the Arctic...
  • Narwhal: an uncertain future
  • The last ice area
  • 11. Arctic change, resource extraction, and Inuit communities in Nunavut
  • Drowning in noise
  • Rethinking human development
  • Now is the time
  • 12. Out of the Arctic, into the Smithsonian: making the Narwahl Exhibition

Details

  • NCID
    BD0895710X
  • ISBN
    • 9780996748018
  • LCCN
    2017939181
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Hanover,Washington, DC
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvii, 233 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
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