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| Preface | |
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| What is a marine mammal? | |
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| Main groups of marine mammals | |
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| Modern taxonomy of marine mammals | |
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| How to look for marine mammals | |
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| Natural history of marine mammals | |
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| Conservation | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| The illustrations | |
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| The maps | |
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| Species accounts | |
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| Sperm Whale | |
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| Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus | |
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| Humpback Whale | |
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| Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae | |
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| Grey Whale | |
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| Grey Whale Eschrichtius robustus | |
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| Right whales | |
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| North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis | |
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| North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica | |
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| Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australis | |
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| Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetus | |
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| Pgymy Right Whale | |
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| Pgymy Right Whale Caperea marginata | |
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| Rorquals with streamlined bodies | |
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| Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus | |
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| Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus | |
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| Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis | |
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| Bryde's Whale Balaenoptera edeni | |
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| Omura's Whale Balaenoptera omurai | |
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| Northern Minke Whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata | |
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| Dwarf Minke Whale Balaenoptera [acutorostrata] species/allospecies | |
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| Antarctic Minke Whale Balaenoptera bonaerensis | |
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| Killer Whale | |
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| Killer Whale Orcinus orca | |
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| Pilot whales - the large 'blackfish' | |
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| Short-finned Pilot Whale Globicephala macrorhynchus | |
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| Long-finned Pilot Whale Globicephala melas | |
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| Small 'blackfish' whales and Risso's Dolphin | |
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| Pygmy Killer Whale Feresa attenuata | |
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| Melon-headed Whale Peponocephala electra | |
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| False Killer Whale Pseudorca crassidens | |
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| Risso's Dolphin Grampus griseus | |
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| Beluga and Narwhal | |
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| Beluga Delphinapterus leucas | |
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| Narwhal Monodon monoceros | |
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| Beaked whales | |
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| Cuvier's Beaked Whale Ziphius cavirostris | |
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| Arnoux's Beaked Whale Berardius arnuxii | |
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| Baird's Beaked Whale Berardius bairdii | |
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| Shepherd's Beaked Whale Tasmacetus shepherdi | |
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| Longman's Beaked Whale Indopacetus pacificus | |
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| Northern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon ampullatus | |
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| Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons | |
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| Hector's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon hectori | |
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| True's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon mirus | |
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| Gervais' Beaked Whale Mesoplodon europaeus | |
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| Sowerby's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon bidens | |
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| Gray's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon grayi | |
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| Pygmy Beaked Whale Mesoplodon peruvianus | |
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| Andrews' Beaked Whale Mesoplodon bowdoini | |
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| Spade-toothed Beaked Whale Mesoplodon traversii | |
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| Hubbs' Beaked Whale Mesoplodon carlhubbsi | |
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| Gingko-toothed Beaked Whale Mesoplodon ginkgodens | |
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| Stejneger's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon stejnegeri | |
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| Strap-toothed Whale Mesoplodon layardii | |
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| Blainville's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon densirostris | |
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| Perrin's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon perrini | |
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| Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales | |
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| Pygmy Sperm Whale Kogia breviceps | |
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| Dwarf Sperm Whale Kogia sima | |
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| Bottlenose and similar plain dolphins | |
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| Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus | |
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| Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops aduncus | |
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| Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin Sousa chinensis | |
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| Atlantic Humpback Dolphin Sousa teuszii | |
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| Rough-toothed Dolphin Steno bredanensis | |
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| Narrow-beaked oceanic dolphins | |
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| Common dolphins | |
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| Short-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis | |
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| Long-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus capensis | |
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| Spinner dolphins | |
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| Spinner Dolphin Stenella longirostris | |
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| Clymene Dolphin Stenella clymene | |
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| Striped Dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba | |
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| Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Stenella attenuata | |
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| Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis | |
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| Short-beaked oceanic dolphins | |
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| Fraser's Dolphin Lagenodelphis hosei | |
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| White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris | |
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| Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus | |
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| Pacific White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens | |
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| Peale's Dolphin Lagenorhynchus australis | |
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| Hourglass Dolphin Lagenorhynchus cruciger | |
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| Dusky Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus | |
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| Cephalorhynchus dolphins | |
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| Commerson's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus commersonii | |
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| Chilean Dolphin Cephalorhynchus eutropia | |
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| Haviside's (Heaviside's) Dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii | |
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| Hector's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori | |
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| Right Whale dolphins | |
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| Northern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis borealis | |
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| Southern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis peronii | |
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| River dolphins and Tucuxi | |
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| Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis | |
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| Franciscana Pontoporia blainvillei | |
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| Amazon River Dolphin Inia geoffrensis | |
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| Ganges River Dolphin Platanista [gangetica] gangetica | |
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| Indus River Dolphin Platanista [gangetica] minor | |
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| Chinese River Dolphin Lipotes vexillifer | |
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| Australian Snubfin and Irrawaddy Dolphins | |
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| Australian Snubfin Dolphin Orcaella heinsohni | |
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| Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris | |
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| Porpoises | |
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| Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides | |
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| Spectacled Porpoise Phocoena dioptrica | |
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| Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena | |
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| Gulf of California Porpoise Phocoena sinus | |
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| Burmeister's Porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis | |
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| Dall's Porpoise Phocoenoides dalli | |
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| Sirenians (sea cows) | |
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| Dugong Dugong dugon | |
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| Steller's Sea Cow Hydrodamalis gigas | |
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| Amazonian Manatee Trichechus inunguis | |
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| West Indian Manatee Trichechus manatus | |
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| West African Manatee Trichechus senegalensis | |
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| Fur seals of northern/mid-latitudes | |
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| Northern Fur Seal Callorhinus ursinus | |
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| Guadalupe Fur Seal Arctocephalus townsendi | |
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| South American Fur Seal Arctocephalus australis | |
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| Galapagos Fur Seal Arctocephalus galapagoensis | |
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| Juan Fernandez Fur Seal Arctocephalus philippii | |
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| Fur seals of the Southern Ocean | |
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| South African and Australian Fur Seals Arctocephalus pusillus | |
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| New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri | |
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| Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella | |
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| Subantarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus tropicalis | |
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| Sea lions | |
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| California and Galapagos Sea Lions Zalophus californianus | |
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| South American Sea Lion Otaria byronia | |
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| Australian Sea Lion Neophoca cinerea | |
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| New Zealand Sea Lion Phocarctos hookeri | |
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| Northern Sea Lion Eumetopias jubatus | |
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| Northern true seals | |
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| Northern Elephant Seal Mirounga angustirostris | |
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| Hooded Seal Cystophora cristata | |
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| Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus | |
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| Harp Seal Pagophilus groenlandicus | |
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| Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata | |
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| Bearded Seal Erignathus barbatus | |
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| Ringed Seal Pusa hispida | |
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| Largha Seal Phoca largha | |
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| Harbour Seal Phoca vitulina | |
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| Mid-latitude true seals | |
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| Caspian Seal Pusa caspica | |
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| Baikal Seal Pusa sibirica | |
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| Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus | |
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| Hawaiian Monk Seal Monachus schauinslandi | |
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| West Indian Monk Seal Monachus tropicalis | |
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| Subantarctic and Antarctic true seals | |
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| Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina | |
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| Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx | |
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| Crabeater Seal Lobodon carcinophaga | |
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| Weddell Seal Leptonychotes weddellii | |
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| Ross Seal Ommatophoca rossii | |
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| Arctic animals | |
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| Walrus Odobenus rosmarus | |
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| Polar Bear Ursus maritimus | |
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| Otters | |
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| Sea Otter Enhydra lutris | |
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| Marine Otter Lutra felina | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected marine mammal sites | |
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| Europe | |
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| Eastern North America | |
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| Western North America | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Australia And New Zealand | |
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| Indian Ocean And Asia | |
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| Conservation checklist | |
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| Selected bibliography | |
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| Photographic credits | |
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| Index | |