Wild blue : a natural history of the world's largest animal /
Natural history of the world's largest animal
Dan Bortolotti.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.
- xiii, 315 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index.
A natural history of the blue whale, the largest creature that has ever lived, looking at what scientific research has revealed about how they dive, where they live, what they eat, their migration, and other aspects of their lives, and discussing how they were driven to the brink of extinction in the early twentieth century, and signs that the population is recovering.