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New Zealand Whales and Dolphins

Index

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Index

  • Abel, Mr R., 46

  • Admiralty Bay, Marlborough, 27

  • Ageing methods, 12

  • Ambergris, 6, 37

  • Andrew's Beaked Whale, 17, 39, 40, 45

  • Antarctica, 18, 24

  • Australia, 42

  • Bachelor schools, 36

  • Backbone, 7

  • Balaena glacialis australis, 16, 19

  • Balaenidae, family, 16

  • Balaenoptera acutorostrata, 16, 18, 20

  • Balaenoptera borealis shlegeli, 16, 18, 20, 21

  • Balaenoptera edeni, 16, 21

  • Balaenoptera musculus intermedia, 16, 22

  • Balaenoptera physalis quoyi, 16, 22

  • Balaenopteridae, family, 16

  • Baleen plates, 4, 6, 18

  • Baleen Whales, 4, 16, 18

  • Balleny Islands, Antarctica, 24

  • Banks Peninsula, 31, 41

  • Barnacles, 23

  • Bay of Islands, 26, 32, 34

  • Beaked Whales, family, 17, 25, 40

  • Bends, 14

  • Berardius arnouxi, 17, 41, 42

  • Black Finless Porpoise, 6, 17, 31, 35

  • Blackfish, 33

  • Blowhole, 10, 18, 25

  • Blubber, 6, 7

  • Bonnet, on Right Whale, 19

  • Bottlenose Dolphin, 14, 17, 25, 26

  • Bow-wave riding, 13

  • Breathing, 10, 14

  • Breeding, 12

  • Bryde's Whale, 16, 21, 22

  • Calf, 12

  • Canterbury Museum, 6, 23

  • Caperea marginata, 16, 19

  • Captivity, 26

  • Cetaceans, groups of, 4

  • Cephalorhynchus hectori, 17, 32

  • Chatham Islands, 15, 28, 39

  • Christchurch, 38

  • Classification of New Zealand cetaceans, 16

  • Cook Strait, 15, 22, 24, 35, 36

  • Common Dolphin, 3, 14, 17, 29, 30, 45

  • Communication, 10, 11

  • Copulation, 12

  • Courtship behaviour, 12

  • Cuvier's Beaked Whale, 17, 40, 41, 45

  • Data to record, 43

  • Daughterly, Anita, E., 46

  • Dawbin, Dr W. H., 24

  • Decompression sickness, 14

  • Delphinidae, family, 17

  • Delphinus delphis, 17, 30

  • Diving, 11, 14

  • Dobbins, Mr A., 41, 46

  • Dolphin, definition of, 4

  • Dolphins, general, 25

  • Dominion Museum, 29, 37, 39, 46

  • Dorsal fin, 7

  • Dusky Dolphin, 14, 17, 28, 29, 35, 45

  • East Cape, 22, 42

  • Echolocation, 10, 15, 42

  • Euphrosyne Dolphin, 29

  • Eyesight, 12

  • False Killer Whale, 15, 17, 32, 33, 34

  • Farewell Spit, 15, 36

  • Feel, sense of, 10

  • Finner, 4, 22

  • Fiordland, 28

  • Flipper, 6

  • Gaskin, Dr D. E., 36

  • Gestation periods, 12

  • Globicephala melaena, 17, 33

  • Golden Bay, 29

  • Golden Coast, 41

  • Goose-Beaked Whale, 17, 41

  • Grampus griseus, 17, 27

  • Great Barrier Island, 6, 22, 36

  • Grooves on throat, 18, 25

  • Hair, 6

  • Hauraki Gulf, 15, 26, 32

  • Hawke Bay, 15, 16, 28, 41

  • Hearing, sense of, 10

  • Hector's Beaked Whale, 17, 39, 40, 45

  • Hector's Dolphin, 6, 14, 17, 32, 45

  • Herd instinct, 16

  • Hind limbs, 7

  • Hourglass Dolphin, 17, 28, 29

  • Humpback Whale, 6, 16, 23, 24

  • Hybrids, 12

  • Hyperoodon planifrons, 17, 42

  • Identification at sea, 43

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  • Kawhia, 32

  • Killer Whale, 5, 17, 34, 45

  • Kogia breviceps, 17, 37

  • Krill, 4, 21, 23

  • Lagenorhynchus cruciger, 17, 28

  • Lagenorhynchus obscurus, 17, 28

  • Large Beaked Whale, 17, 40, 41, 42, 45

  • Life History data to record, 45

  • Lungs, 10

  • Lyall Bay, Wellington, 37

  • Mahia, 15

  • Mammary glands, 6

  • Manawatu Beach, 27

  • Maori mythology, 4

  • Marlborough Sounds, 26

  • Marineland of New Zealand, Napier, 26, 28, 32, 37, 41, 46

  • Marsden Point, 15

  • Mating, 12

  • Measurements of cetaceans, 43, 44

  • Megaptera novaeangliae, 16, 23

  • Melon, 27, 38

  • Mesoplodon bowdoini, 17, 39

  • Mesoplodon grayi, 17, 38

  • Mesoplodon hectori, 17, 39

  • Mesoplodon layardi, 17, 39

  • Migration routes, of Humpback Whale, 24

  • Migrations, seasonal, of Bryde's Whale, 22

  • Military interest in dolphins, 26

  • Minke Whale, 16, 18, 20

  • Mission Bay, Auckland, 29

  • Moby Dick, 36

  • Morzer-Bruyns, Capt. W. F. J., 46

  • Mysticeti, Order, 4, 16

  • Neck, 9

  • Neophocaena phocaenoides, 17, 35

  • Number of species in New Zealand waters, 4

  • Nursery schools, 36

  • Odontoceti, Order, 4, 17

  • Okarito, South Westland, 23

  • Opo George, 26

  • Opononi, 26

  • Opoutama, 15

  • Orcinus orca, 17, 35

  • Orongorongo Beach, Wellington, 27

  • Otago Museum, 22

  • Oxygen utilisation, 10

  • Paraparaumu, 15, 34, 35

  • Pelorus Jack, 27

  • Pelorus Sound, Marlborough, 27

  • Pelvis, 7, 8

  • Perano, Mr J. H., 35

  • Pilot Whale, 15, 17, 33, 45

  • Pike, Gordon C., 46

  • Photographs of cetaceans, 43

  • Physeter catodon, 17, 36

  • Physeteridae, family, 17

  • Porpoise, definition of, 4

  • Pseudorca crassidens, 17, 32, 33

  • Pygmy Right Whale, 16, 19, 20

  • Pygmy Sperm Whale, 9, 17, 37, 45

  • Razorback, 22

  • Right Whale Dolphin, 6, 17, 31, 45

  • Right Whales, 4, 16

  • Right Whales, family, 17, 18

  • Risso's Dolphin, 17, 27, 45

  • Rorquals, 4, 16, 18

  • Rough-Toothed Dolphin, 16

  • Saddleback Dolphin, 2, 17, 30

  • Scamperdown Whale, 17, 38, 39, 40, 45

  • Scars, 25, 27

  • Seattle Public Aquarium, 35

  • Sei Whale, 16, 20, 21

  • Sex determination, 12

  • Sexual maturity, 12

  • Shark, pelagic, 25

  • Shepherd's Beaked Whale, 6, 17, 38, 40, 45

  • Skeleton, 7, 8

  • Skin, 7, 13

  • Skull, 9

  • Size of whales, 6

  • Sleep, 14

  • Smell, sense of, 10

  • Social groups, 16

  • Sounds, production of, 10

  • Southern Blue Whale, 6, 16, 22

  • Southern Bottlenose Whale, 17, 40, 42, 45

  • Southern Fin Whale, 22

  • Southern Finner, 16, 22

  • Southern Ocean, 23

  • Southern Right Whale, 6, 16, 19

  • Sperm Whale, 6, 9, 17, 36, 37, 45

  • Sperm Whales, family, 17, 25

  • Spermaceti oil, 6, 36

  • Spotted Dolphin, 6, 17, 29, 30, 45

  • Spout, 10, 11

  • Stenella caeruleoalba, 17, 29

  • Stenella dubia, 17, 29, 30

  • Steno bredanensis, 16

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  • Stewart Island, 38

  • Strandings, 15

  • Strap-Toothed Whale, 17, 39, 40, 45

  • Striped Dolphin, 17, 29, 45

  • Swimming speed, 13

  • Sulphur Bottom, 22

  • Symphysis, 39, 40, 45

  • Tail flukes, 6, 7

  • Tasmacetus shepherdi, 17, 38

  • Taste buds, 10

  • Teeth, numbers of, 45

  • Toothed whales, 4, 17, 25

  • Tory Channel, 6, 23, 35

  • Timaru, 42

  • Tursiops truncatus, 17, 26

  • U.S. National Museum, 16

  • Veitch, Richard, 2, 46

  • Vestigial teeth, 36

  • Vision, field of, 12

  • Wainui Beach, Gisborne, 36

  • Wanganui, 38

  • Wellington Harbour, 19, 24

  • Whalebone whales, 4

  • Whale food, 4, 14, 21, 22, 23, 41, 42

  • Whaling around New Zealand, 6

  • Whangamumu, Northland, 6

  • Ziphiidae, family, 17

  • Ziphius cavirostris, 17, 41

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