Greenland's Winter Whales: The Beluga, the Narwhal and the Bowhead Whale

• Published in: Arctic Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 315 - 316
• Main Author: Higdon, Jeff W.
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Calgary The Arctic Institute of North America 01.09.2007; Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary; Arctic Institute of North America
• Subjects: Animal populations; Aquatic mammals; Heide-Jorgensen, Mads Peter; Jespersen, Britt-Marie; Laidre, Kristin; Nonfiction; Oceans; Overexploitation; Reviews; Sustainability management; Whales; Whales & whaling; Wildlife management; Winter; Greenland

Few people would be as qualified as these authors to write a book on Greenland's whales. Over the past decade, Drs. Heide-Jørgensen and Laidre have published extensively on the cetaceans of West Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic, and these studies form the basis for this book. The subje...