Erich Hoyt ist ein Autor, der tief in die Welt des Meereslebens und dessen Schutz eingetaucht ist. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch einen fesselnden Stil aus, der sich mit den faszinierenden Reichen der Wale, Delfine und der tiefsten Meeresbewohner befasst. Hoyt, der einen Großteil seines Lebens dem Meer gewidmet hat, nutzt seine umfassenden Erfahrungen, um diese Kreaturen lebendig werden zu lassen und betont die dringende Notwendigkeit ihres Schutzes. Durch seine Werke informiert er die Leser über Spitzenforschung im Meeresbereich und hebt die faszinierendsten und erstaunlichsten Arten hervor, die unsere Ozeane bevölkern. Seine Schriften gelten als maßgeblich und inspirierend für alle, die sich für Meeresbiologie und Naturschutz begeistern.
Übersichtlicher Leitfaden zur Identifizierung aller Arten von Walen, Delfinen und Schweinswalen. Die Schlüsselkriterien jedes Säugetiers und über 900 Fotografien mit detaillierten Beschreibungen ermöglichen eine präzise und einfache Identifikation.
An award-winning author and whale researcher takes readers into 'the field' for an intimate encounter with some 90 species of cetaceans that make their homes in the world's oceans.
Written by one of Canada's leading science and nature journalists, The Whales of Canada will help readers identify and understand all 20 species of whales, porpoises, and dolphins found in Canadian waters. Included are feeding, breeding and social habits, size comparisons, drawings, photos, range maps, and firsthand observations from the biologists and experienced whale watchers.
Includes descriptions of species, places throughout the world to go to watch whales, lookout sites, tours available, weather/sea notes and museums etc. Also includes list of photographic equipment, clothing and useful items for whale watching.
"Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville."( Discover Magazine ) Star performers in aquariums and marine parks, killer whales were once considered to be too dangerous to approach in the wild. Erich Hoyt and his colleagues spent seven summers following these intelligent and playful creatures in the waters off northern Vancouver Island, intent on dispelling the killer myth. The Whale Called Killer is Hoyt's exciting account of those summers of adventure and discovery, and the definitive, classic work on the orca or killer whale. The Free Willy films, inspired in part by Hoyt's pioneering writing about orcas, tell the story of a captive orca being returned to the wild. (Hoyt, in fact, recommended Keiko, the orca who became the star of Free Willy , to Warner Bros.) But The Whale Called Killer tells the true story of wild orcas befriending humans.
A dazzling photographic journey into the night-time oceans where countless microscopic plankton ascend to feed before returning to the depths.
