New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Book reviews

Wayne Power

Machine Vision Group
DSIR Industrial Development
P.O. Bow 2225, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract The strandings of whales upon the coasts of the world is one of the mysteries of nature that has fascinated humanity from at least as far back as Aristotle (the term "whale" is used here for all members of the order Cetacea). In societies where hunting was an important source of food, such as the New Zealand Maori, stranded whales would have represented a welcome additional supply of meat and oil. Later, whale strandings began to represent a source of wealth, and a disposal problem. Whale strandings were also one of the few opportunities for early naturalists to see and study whales.

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1992, Vol. 26: The Royal Society of New Zealand 1992 1 August 1991

PDF file of entire paper: medium quality (247K); (scanned from paper original: notes about this process)

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