Aquatic Animals: Underwater Mammals

Text and illustrations present such ocean creatures as the manta ray, dolphin, and octopus, explaining their physical structures and how they work.

Introduces the physiology, habitats, feeding, and behavior of different types of whales and discusses whale watching.
Includes an index.

Introduces the life cycle of the manatee, from its underwater birth, to a two-year period of learning survival skills from its mother, and its final maturity at five years old.

Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.

Discusses several different marine mammals including dolphins, manatees, walruses, whales, and sea otters.

The Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoises - those aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning about cetaceans, the reader is introduced to almost 20 different species - including sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and finless porpoise; and boto, common, hourglass, and bottlenose dolphins.