Whales and dolphins : cognition, culture, conservation and human perceptions

Content: Why whales, why now? / Philippa Brakes --
Impressions : whales and human relationships in myth, tradition and law / Stuart Harrop --
Whales of the Pacific / Viliamu Iese and Cara Miller --
The journey towards whale conservation in Latin America / Miguel Iñíguez --
Whales and the USA / Naomi A. Rose [and others] --
Whales in the balance : to touch or to kill? A view of Caribbean attitudes towards whales / Nathalie Ward --
The British and the whales / Mark Peter Simmonds --
Whales in Norway / Siri Martinsen --
Of whales, whaling and whale watching in Japan : a conversation / Jun Morikawa and Erich Hoyt --
A contemporary view of the International Whaling Commission / Richard Cowan --
The nature of whales and dolphins / Liz Slooten --
Brain structure and intelligence in cetaceans / Lori Marino --
Communication / Paul Spong --
Lessons from dolphins / Toni Frohoff --
Highly interactive behaviour of inquisitive dwarf minke whales / Alastair Birtles and Arnold Mangott --
The cultures of whales and dolphins / Hal Whitehead --
Whales and dolphins on a rapidly changing planet / Mark Peter Simmonds and Philippa Brakes --
From conservation to protection : charting a new conservation ethic for cetaceans / Philippa Brakes and Claire Bass --
What is it like to be a dolphin? / Thomas I. White --
Thinking whales and dolphins / Philippa Brakes and Mark Peter Simmonds.