WHALES AND DOLPHINS: BEHAVIOR, BIOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION -- WHALES AND DOLPHINS: BEHAVIOR, BIOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CENOZOIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND EVOLUTION OF BALEEN WHALES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- A DARWINIAN APPROACH -- OVERVIEW OF BALEEN-BEARING WHALE EVOLUTION -- Morphological and Taxonomic Diversity Changes through Time -- Hypotheses of Phylogeny -- Paleobiogeographic Distribution -- CONNECTING CENOZOIC GLOBAL CHANGES AND BALEEN WHALE EVOLUTION -- Oligocene: Early Radiation -- Miocene: Dispersal -- Pliocene-to-Recent: Origin of the Modern Mysticete Fauna -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 WHALES AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- THE CHANGING CLIMATE -- ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE -- SOUTHERN OCEAN AND THE ANTARCTIC -- OCEAN ACIDIFICATION -- CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS TO CETACEANS -- HABITAT LOSS -- TEMPERATURE INCREASE -- PREY AVAILABILITY -- ARCTIC WHALES -- NARWHALS -- CHANGES IN DISTRIBUTION -- GRAY WHALES -- INCREASED HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN THE ARCTIC -- SOUTHERN OCEAN - WHALES AND THEIR FOOD WEB -- RECOMMENDED ACTIONS -- NEED FOR MONITORING AND MODELING -- EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS -- ADAPTATION -- DEVELOPING A SENSITIVITY / VULNERABILITY INDEX FOR CETACEANS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE IN WHALES AND DOLPHINS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE PARASITE FAUNA OF CETACEANS: A PLEA FOR INTEGRATIVE STUDIES -- ABSTRACT -- DO PARASITES MATTER? -- PARASITES AND VALUES -- THE VALUES OF PARASITES OF CETACEANS -- A PLEA FOR INTEGRATIVE STUDIES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 MORE THAN JUST OLD BONES: THE FOSSIL RECORD INFORMS US ABOUT HOMOLOGY, AND CONVERGENCES OF ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR IN THE CETACEA OTHERWISE UNKNOWN FROM MODERN ANIMALS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ODONTOCETI VS. MYSTICETI -- WITHIN THE MYSTICETI -- IMPLICATIONS.

REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SOLITARY AND GROUP TIME BUDGET IN THE ESTUARINE DOLPHIN (SOTALIA GUIANENSIS) AT NORTHEASTERN - BRAZIL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- Study Areas -- Data Collection -- Data Analyses -- RESULTS -- Time Budget -- Comparison between Periods -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.