Title:
Narwhal : revealing an arctic legend
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Hanover, NH : IPI Press ; Washington, DC : Artic Studies Center, National Museum of NaturaI History, Smithsonian Institution, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
xxvii, 233 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9780996748018
General Note:
"This book is the companion to the exhibit, "Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, opening August 2017"--Title page verso.
Contents:
1. What is a whale? -- 2. The universally beloved unicorn -- 3. Narwhal biology: an overview ; Listening to narwhals ; The physics of flukes -- 4. The extraordinary narwhal tooth ; Whale in the net! ; Making sense of the tusk -- 5. Narwhal DNA ; Why sequence whole genomes? ; The Narwhal Genome Initiative: a progress report -- 6. Deep time: the narwhal and beluga fossil record ; Narwhals and climate -- 7. Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit knowledge and modern life ; Nunavut government symbols -- 8. Inuit and narwhal -- 9. Inuit contributions to narwhal knowledge -- 10. Climate and the changing Arctic ; Narwhals and the global mercury issue ; As goes the Arctic ... ; Narwhal: an uncertain future ; The last ice area -- 11. Arctic change, resource extraction, and Inuit communities in Nunavut ; Drowning in noise ; Rethinking human development ; Now is the time -- 12. Out of the Arctic, into the Smithsonian: making the Narwahl Exhibition.
Subject Term:
Language:
English
