MARINE MAMMAL BOOKS AVAILABLE ¡VIVAVaquita! is a non-profit organization dedicated to working to help save the vaquita from extinction. All funds raised are actively used for research and conservation work on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the world’s most endangered marine mammal species, and other endangered cetaceans. The most recent survey indicates that while the global population of the vaquita is close to extinction, there is some also some evidence of possible recovery and of continued calf survival. Visit our website at www.vivavaquita.org and watch a recording of International Save the Vaquita Day at vaquita.day for more details. ¡VIVAVaquita! has dozens of marine mammal books, reprints, monographs, and journals that are available for a donation to the organization. Below is a sample of some of the more popular items we have (price listed is suggested donation), but there are others as well. Please note that a minimum total of US$100 is required for shipping overseas from the US. To request books, please contact Tom Jefferson at [email protected].
Brower, K., & Curtsinger, W. R. (1979). Wake of the Whale: Friends of the Earth. $6 Coffey, D. J. (1977). Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: An Encyclopedia of Sea Mammals: Macmillan Publishing Co. $4 Dizon, A. E., Chivers, A. E., & Perrin, W. F. (Eds.). (1997). Molecular Genetics of Marine Mammals (Vol. Special Publication No. 3): Society for Marine Mammalogy. (NEW). $4 Ellis, R. (1990). The Book of Whales: Alfred A. Knopf. $5 Evans, P. G. H. (1987). The Natural History of Whales and Dolphins: Facts on File. $5 Harrison, R., & Bryden, M. M. e. (1988). Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: Facts on File. $8. Henning, R. A., Lotken, M., Olds, B., & Morgan, L. (1978). Alaska whales and whaling (Vol. 5(40). $7 Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 246, 259 pp. $8 Jefferson, T. (2000). Hong Kong's Dolphins: The Story of Our Indo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphins: Ocean Park Conservation Foundation. $4. Jefferson, T. A., & Smith, B. D. (Eds.). (2002). Facultative Freshwater Cetaceans of Asia: Their Ecology and Conservation (Vol. Supplement 10). $4 Jefferson, T. A., Mead, J. G., & Kinze, C. C. (2023). Nomenclature of the larger toothed whales (Odontocetes): A historical review. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 655, 78 pp. $3 Jefferson, T. A. (ed.) (2024). Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Vol. 1: Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises. Academic Press. 649 pp. $$85. (NEW). Jefferson, T. A. (ed.) (2025). Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Vol. 2: Oceanic Dolphins: Academic Press. 715 pp. $$85. (NEW). Leatherwood, S., Caldwell, D. K., & Winn, H. E. (1976). Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the western North Atlantic: a guide to their identification. NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular, 396, 176 pp. $7 Leatherwood, S., Reeves, R. R., Perrin, W. F., & Evans, W. E. (1982). Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: A guide to their identification. NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular, 444, 245 pp. $10 Leatherwood, S., & Donovan, G. P. (Eds.). (1991). Cetaceans and Cetacean Research in the Indian Ocean Sanctuary (Vol. 3): UNEP Marine Mammal Technical Report. Lekagul, B., & McNeely, J. A. (1988). Mammals of Thailand: Darnsutha Press (Second Edition). $12. Matthews, L. H. (1975). The Whale: Crescent Books. $9 McIntyre, J. (Ed.) (1974). Mind in the Waters: Charles Scribner's Sons. $6 Miller, G. S., & Kellogg, R. (1955). List of North American recent mammals. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 205, 954 pp. (HARDBOUND) $12 Mitchell, E. D. (1975). Porpoise, dolphin and small whale fisheries of the world. IUCN Monograph, 3, 129 pp. $5. Mitchell, E. (ed). 1975. Review of biology and fisheries for smaller cetaceans. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 32(7): 879-1242. Special issue of journal on dolphins, porpoises, and small whales. $7. Nickerson, R. (1977). Brother Whale: Chronicle Books. $5 Perrin, W. F. (1975). Variation of spotted and spinner porpoise (genus Stenella) in the eastern tropical Pacific and Hawaii. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 21, 206 pp. $10 Pike, G. C., & MacAskie, I. B. (1969). Marine mammals of British Columbia. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 171, 54 pp. $8 Reynolds, J. E., & Odell, D. K. (Eds.). (1991). Marine mammal strandings in the United States: Proceedings of the Second Marine Mammal Stranding Workshop, Miami, Florida, December 3-5, 1987 (Vol. 98): NOAA Technical Report NMFS. $6 Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication, 4, 231 pp. $4 Ridgway, S. H. (Ed.) (1972). Mammals of the Sea: Biology and Medicine: Charles C. Thomas. $95 Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute. Most issues available (please designate issues desired). $6/issue. True, F. W. (1983 Reprint (1904). Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those Occurring in European Waters with Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific (facsimile edition): Smithsonian Institution Press. $35 True, F. W., G. S. Miller, and R. Kellogg. Misc. original reprints, some signed by author. $2/reprint. Winn, L. K., & Winn, H. E. (1985). Wings in the Sea: the Humpback Whale: University Press of New England. $7. Würsig, B., T. A. Jefferson and D. J. Schmidly. (2000). The Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M University Press. (NEW). $5 Misc. whaling books (request titles).
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