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"The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas" by Hanne Strager is a book that combines the author's personal experiences with orcas with scientific knowledge about the species. The book explores the cultural and historical context surrounding orcas and addresses controversial issues related to their interactions with humans. It also discusses current topics such as whale-watching tourism and recent incidents involving orcas. The book is well-written and engaging, with each chapter offering a stand-alone story. It includes excellent photos, although they lack captions. Overall, the book is a balanced and informative read that can inspire young biologists and engage a wide audience interested in nature, wildlife, and culture. [Extracted from the article]

Sato's beaked whale: A new cetacean species discovered around Japan. An MPA is generally declared on the basis of the richness of its biodiversity, in terms of the number of species recorded in it or because it is particularly significant for the conservation of priority species, or both. To Carwardine's credit, he notes the occurrence of these whales in the Gulf of Mexico as "another distinct lineage, which probably justifies subspecies or, more likely, species status.". [Extracted from the article]

Subsequent chapters have an ecological focus, reviewing the impacts on seabed communities (Chapter 4), fish (Chapter 5), marine mammals (Chapter 6), migratory birds and bats (Chapter 7), and seabird displacements and collisions (Chapters 8 and 9). The volume begins with monitoring of the most important animal groups: invertebrates and fish (Chapter 1), mammals (Chapter 2), and birds and bats (Chapters 3-6). Chapters 7 and 8 consider wildlife impact mitigation, focusing on noise effects during construction (Chapter 7) and bird-specific mitigations post-construction (Chapter 8), as these are the main sources of wildlife conflict. Several chapters would have benefitted from cross-references between chapters, but the final chapter of each volume generally integrates information well, highlighting gaps in our knowledge and providing some suggestions for the future. [Extracted from the article]

I Undrowned i (Gumbs, 2020) conveys the Black feminist politics, poetry and philosophy that Gumbs learned from a range of scientific, historical, and personal encounters with marine mammals. The two main differences between I Undrowned i and the texts of these authors is, firstly, I Undrowned i does not advocate any form of veganism, and secondly, Gumbs is committed to the personal over the political. Although Gumbs tries to avoid rigid structure, the theme on remembrance echoes a recurrent mix of personal experience, Black feminist politics, mythic and folkloric epistemologies, and Western science. [Extracted from the article]

Ignorance, greed, corruption, poverty, black market, crime cartels, violence, and murder - what on Earth does all this have to do with marine ecology? To make the story short, fishers fishing illegally for an endangered fish species with gillnets are driving another critically endangered species, the vacquita, to extinction. Brooke Bessensen, in her Epilogue, describes the failed attempt to capture vacquitas and keep them in captivity until the threats in the Gulf cease. [Extracted from the article]

Europe's sea mammals: a field guide to the whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals, by The next part of the guide gives describes all the mammals on two sides of a page, each mammal; e.g., on p. 44f the Blue Whale. For those with an interest in mammals this guide will be very informative and will certainly enhance the experience of mammal watching. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Sealworms in the North Atlantic: Ecology and Population Dynamics,' edited by Genevieve Desportes and Gary McClelland.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals,' edited by W.F. Perrin, B. Wursig and J.G.M. Thewissen.

The article reviews the book "A Natural History of Marine Mammals," by Victor B. Scheffer.

The article reviews the book "An Introduction to Marine Mammal Biology and Conservation," by E. C. M. Parsons.

Reviews the book 'Marine Mammals: Biology and Conservation,' edited by P.G.H. Evans and J.A. Raga.

Reviews the book 'Marine Mammals and Low-Frequency Sound: Progress Since 1994.'

Reviews the book 'Marine Mammals of the World. Systematics and Distribution,' by Dale W. Rice.

Reviews the book 'National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World,' illustrated by Pieter A. Folkens, text by Randall R. Reeves and others.

Reviews the book 'Notes From an Underwater Zoo,' by Don C. Reed.

Reviews the book 'Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises,' by Ronald M. Lockley.

Reviews the book 'Marine Mammals of Eastern North Pacific and Arctic Waters,' edited, prefaced and introduced by Delphine Haley.

Reviews the book 'Mammals of the Oceans,' by Richard Mark Martin.

Reviews the book 'Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: An Encylclopedia of Sea Mammals,' by David J. Coffey.

Reviews the book 'A Natural History of Marine Mammals,' by Victor B. Scheffer.

A review of the book "About Marine Mammals: A Guide for Children" by Cathryn Sill and illustrated by John SIll is presented.