Narwhal : revealing an arctic legend
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Narwhal : revealing an arctic legend
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