MARINE MAMMAL BOOKS AVAILABLE ¡VIVAVaquita! is a non-profit organization dedicated to working to help save the vaquita from extinction. All funds raised are actively used for research and conservation work on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the world’s most endangered marine mammal species, and other endangered cetaceans. The most recent survey indicates the global population of the vaquita may now number less than 10 individuals and is nearing extinction. Visit our website at www.vivavaquita.org and watch a recording of International Save the Vaquita Day at vaquita.day for more details. ¡VIVAVaquita! has hundreds of marine mammal books, reprints, monographs, and journals that are available for a donation to the organization. Below is a sample of some of the more popular items we have (price listed is suggested donation), but there are many, many more and suggested donation amounts range from US$4-100. To request specific books or a list of additional books available, please contact Tom Jefferson at [email protected].
Berta, A., J. L. Sumich and K. M. Kovacs. (2015). Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. Academic Press, Third Edition. $15. Bessesen, B. (2018). Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez. Island Press. $12 (NEW). Bjorge, A. and G. P. Donovan. (1995). Biology of the Phocoenids: A Collection of Papers. Pages 552 pp. Reports of the International Whaling Commission. $$17. Burns, J. J., J. J. Montague and C. J. Cowles. 1993. The Bowhead Whale. Pages 787 pp. Society for Marine Mammalogy. $20. Dizon, A. E., A. E. Chivers and W. F. Perrin. (1997). Molecular Genetics of Marine Mammals. Pages 388 pp. Society for Marine Mammalogy. $4. (NEW). FAO. (1978). Mammals in the seas: Volume I. Report of the FAO Advisory Committee on Marine Resources Research. $8. Felando, A. and H. Medina. (2009). The Tuna/Porpoise Controversy: How Tuna Fishermen Were Caught in the Governmennt’s Net and Fought to Survive. Western Sky Press. $15. Haley, D. (1986). Marine Mammals of the Eastern North Pacific and Arctic Waters. Pacific Search Press. Hardcover, 2nd ed. $16. Hoyt, E. (1984). Orca: The Whale Called Killer. Camden House. $9. Jefferson, T. A. (ed.) (2024). Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Vol. 1: Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises. 649 pp. Academic Press. $100. (NEW). Jefferson, T. A., S. Leatherwood and M. A. Webber. (1993). Marine Mammals of the World: FAO Species Identification Guide. United Nation Environment Programme and Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. $23. Klinowska, M. (1991). Dolphins, Porpoises, and Whales of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. $9. Kenyon, K. W. (1969). The sea otter in the eastern Pacific Ocean. North American Fauna, 68, 352 pp. $6. Lavigne, D. M. and K. M. Kovacs. (1988). Harps and Hoods. University of Waterloo Press. $11. Leatherwood, S. and R. R. Reeves. (1983). The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. $10 (softcover edition). Leatherwood, S., R. R. Reeves, W. F. Perrin and W. E. Evans. (1982). Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: A guide to their identification. NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular, 444, 245 pp. $7. Leatherwood, S., R. R. Reeves, W. F. Perrin and W. E. Evans. (1988). Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Eastern North Pacific and Adjacent Arctic Waters: A Guide to Their Identification. Dover Publications. $8. Mitchell, E. D. (1975). Porpoise, dolphin and small whale fisheries of the world. IUCN Monograph, 3, 129 pp. $5. Mitchell, E. (ed). 1975. Review of biology and fisheries for smaller cetaceans. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 32(7): 879-1242. Special issue of journal on dolphins, porpoises, and small whales. $8. National Research Council. (1992). Dolphins and the Tuna Industry. National Academy Press. $11. Perrin, W. F. (1975). Variation of spotted and spinner porpoise (genus Stenella) in the eastern tropical Pacific and Hawaii. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 21, 206 pp. $11. Perrin, W. F., G. P. Donovan and J. Barlow. (1994). Gillnets and Cetaceans. 617+ pp. Reports of the International Whaling Commission. $16. Perrin, W. F. and A. C. Myrick. (1980). Age Determination of Toothed Whales and Sirenians. Pages 229 pp. Reports of the International Whaling Commission. $14. Perrin, W. F., R. L. Brownell and D. P. Demaster. (1984). Reproduction in Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Pages 495 pp. Reports of the International Whaling Commission. $19. Pilleri, G. (1980). The Secrets of the Blind Dolphins. Elite Publishers Ltd. $32. Pryor, K. and K. S. Norris. (1991). Dolphin Societies: Discoveries and Puzzles. 397 pp. University of California Press. $22. Reeves, R. R., B. S. Stewart, P. J. Clapham and J. A. Powell. (2002). Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. Alfred A. Knopf. $14. Ridgway, S. H. and R. Harrison. (1994). Handbook of Marine Mammals, Vol. 5: The First Book of Dolphins. Pages 416 pp. Academic Press. $65. Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication, 4, 231 pp. $5. (NEW). Scheffer, V. B. (1958). Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses: A Review of the Pinnipedia. Stanford University Press. $10. Scheffer, V. B. and J. W. Slipp. (1948). The whales and dolphins of Washington State, with a key to the cetaceans of the west coast of North America. American Midland Naturalist, 39, 257-337. $7. Schevill, W. E. (1974). The Whale Problem: A Status Report. Pages 419 pp. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. $8. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute. Most issues available (please designate issues desired). $6/issue. Simmonds, M. P. and J. D. Hutchinson. (1996). The Conservation of Whales and Dolphins: Science and Practice. 476 pp. John Wiley and Sons. $13. True, F. W. (1904 - First Edition). Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those Occurring in European Waters with Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 33, 332 pp. + plates. $62. Truitt, D. 1974. Dolphins and Porpoises: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Smaller Cetacea. Gale Research Co. $22. Twiss, J. R. and R. R. Reeves. (1999). Conservation and Management of Marine Mammals. 471 pp. Smithsonian Institution Press. $13. Würsig, B., T. A. Jefferson and D. J. Schmidly. (2000). The Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M University Press. $5. (NEW). Würsig, B., J. G. M. Thewissen and K. M. Kovacs. (2018). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (Third Edition). Pages 1157 pp. Academic Press. $42.
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