Diappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right Whale

by Ken Mallory, Kenneth Mallory, Scott Kraus

Book Overview

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is the most endangered large whale in the oceans today. Fewer than 350 are left in their breeding and feeding grounds, which extend from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. Survivors of hundreds of years of commercial exploitation, the right whales we see in the ocean today are barometers for the plight of whales in the 21st century. For over 900 years, beginning about a.d. 1000, whalers from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593730047
• ISBN13: 9781593730048
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Co
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 6.7"