A book with impressive illustrations to discover the most fascinatingwhales in the world!We tend to use the general term whale whenreferring to large cetaceans: fin whales, sperm whales, killerwhales... and also when talking about true whales belonging to theBalenidae family. These mammals ply the seas where they reign in their own right, thanks to their immense size. The blue whale is thelargest living animal. It size is similar to that of five elephants,just like some of the great dinosaurs of the past.This book divesthrough the seas inhabited by cetaceans to discover that they aresocial animals that take care of their calves and gather, called bytheir songs, to hunt or defend themselves. It shows us the scars leftby the parasites that inhabit their skin, describes their fins, theirblowing and immersion sequences, their eating habits and the dangersthreatening them, such as whalers, pollution and the reduction ofpolar ice.