A mother humpback whale and her calf participate in the great migration and face dangers along the way that reveal to young children some of the hazards confronting our environment and the animals that depend upon it.

Close-up photographs and personal stories of encounters with whales by the authors.

Contains facts about killer whales and great white sharks, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.

Onboard a vessel that would make Jacques Cousteau green with envy, the Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoises-those aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning how cetaceans stay warm without hair, have teeth or baleen, swim in troops, spyhop, spin, breach, and see via ecolocation, kids are introduced to almost 20 different species-including sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and...

With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer.

In text and pictures, describes the various kinds of whales and their relatives, dolphins and porpoises, their life-cycles, and the best locations for humans to see them.

"A book about the rich ecosystem that springs up around the death of a whale in the deep sea"--

A brief introduction to whales, discussing their characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and predators.

Rhyming text describes the activities and physical characteristics of a variety of whales.