Dolphins

Brief Description: "Describes how living in a family group helps dolphins thrive in their environment. Life cycle, habitat, and interaction with people are explained"--Provided by publisher. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.; Describes how living in a family group helps dolphins thrive in their environment. Life cycle, habitat, and interaction with people are explained--Provided by publisher.. Table of Contents: Introduction -- Streamlined swimmers -- Living In schools -- Dolphins living together -- Expert fishers -- Helping each other -- Mating dolphins -- Caring for the young -- Places where dolphins live -- Close relations -- Echolocation -- Dolphins in rivers -- Captive dolphins -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index. Review Citations:

School Library Journal 11/01/2012 pg. 26 (EAN 9781781210024, Library Binding)

Contributor Bio:  Harris, Tim Jean Bacon is a reader at the University of Cambridge. She works in the Computer Laboratory, focusing on distributed systems. She is also the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computer Society's, Distributed Systems Online and serves on their Board of Government. Her research interests encompass the broad area of distributed systems. Tim Harris is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge also in the Computer Laboratory. His focus is on concurrent systems. Professor Harris is also a fellow of Churchill College.