New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Book reviews

Alan N. Baker

Natural History Unit, National Museum of New Zealand
P.O. Box 467, Wellington New Zealand

Abstract This book is a collection of 16 papers by 24 American and Canadian students of Orcinus orca, the killer whale, mostly based on work done in the coastal waters of British Columbia and Washington State. Indeed, the contributors list looks like a who's who of killer whale research in the north-east Pacific! It is not, as the title and series name might suggest, a world coverage with exhaustive reviews of the state of knowledge of this species. According to Kirkevcld's introduction, the volume presents "recent findings; concerning the biological and behavioural aspects" of the animal; it is not inclusive of all the behavioural and biological knowledge existing for this whale. More's the pity.

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1988, Vol. 22: 625-628 Crown copyright 1988 Received 10 January 1988, accepted 12 March 1988

PDF file of entire paper: medium quality (417K); (scanned from paper original: notes about this process)

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