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Introduction 1 Classification of cetaceans 1 Dolphin or porpoise 5 Organization of the guide 5 How to use the guide 7 To identify animals at sea 7 To identify stranded animals 7 To record and report information 7 Directory to species accounts: Large whales: With a dorsal fin 10 Without dorsal fin 13 Medium-sized whales: With a dorsal fin 14 Without dorsal fin 15 Small whales, dolphins, and porpoises with a dorsal fin 16 Species accounts: Large whales with a dorsal fin: Blue whale 19 Fin whale 26 Sei whale 32 Bryde's whale 37 Humpback whale 40 Large whales without dorsal fin: Bowhead whale 49 Right whale 52 Sperm whale 57 Medium-sized whales with a dorsal fin: Minke whale 63 Northern bottlenosed whale 67 Goosebeaked whale 70 Other beaked whales 74 True's beaked whale 77 Antillean beaked whale 78 Dense-beaked whale 80 North Sea beaked whale 82 Killer whale 84 False killer whale 88 Atlantic pilot whale 91 Short-finned pilot whale 94 Grampus 96 Medium-sized whales without dorsal fin: Beluga 99 Narwhal 102 Small whales, dolphins, and porpoises with a dorsal fin: Atlantic spotted dolphin 104 Bridled dolphin 108 Spinner dolphin 110 Striped dolphin 113 Saddleback dolphin 116 Fraser's dolphin 120 Atlantic white-sided dolphin 123 White-beaked dolphin 126 Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin 128 Guiana dolphin 132 Rough-toothed dolphin 135 Pygmy killer whale 138 Many-toothed blackfish 142 Pygmy sperm whale 144 Dwarf sperm whale 148 Harbor porpoise 150 Acknowledgments 152 Selected bibliography 152
Appendix A, Tags on whales, dolphins, and porpoises 154
Appendix B, Recording and reporting observations of cetaceans at sea 160
Appendix C, Stranded whales, dolphins, and porpoises; with a key to the identification of stranded cetaceans of the western North Atlantic 163
Appendix D, Recording and reporting data on stranded cetaceans 169
Appendix E, List of institutions to contact regarding stranded cetaceans 171
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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic
A Guide to Their Identification
STEPHEN LEATHERWOOD, DAVID K. CALDWELL, and HOWARD E. WINN
with special assistance by William E. Schevill and Melba C. Caldwell
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