With gratitude to Peter Hamilton.Special thanks to Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, WCS scientist, whale expert, and consultants.

Thanks for photographs to Brandon Cole (jacket front, front flap, pages 4–5, 6–7, 8, 12–13, 14, 16–17, 18–19, 20–21, 23, 24–25, 32) as well as Doc White (pages 2–3), François Gohier (page

11), Dennis DeMello (page 9), Eleanor Sterling, WCS/AMNH CRCP (pages 28–29), Peter J. Ersts, WCS/AMNH CRCP (pages 30–31), and Kike Calvo/V&W/Seapics (pages 26–27).

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The Wildlife Conservation Society and WhalesThe Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild lands around the world, studies and teaches about what animals need to survive, and runs the world’s larg-est system of zoos, including the Bronx Zoo in New York City. Since whales spend most of their lives underwater, they are difficult to study. Scien-tists must go out in boats to learn how whales live in the wild. Everything that scientists learn about whales helps organizations like WCS understand the best ways to help them. WCS works with governments in many countries to set up places where wales will be safe. WCS scientist Dr. Howard Rosenbaum and his team have made special studies of whale populations around the world. Their work with humpback whales in to African na-tions, Madagascar and Gabon, has helped to protect some of the places near shore where humpback claves are born. To find out more about WCS and the ways that you can help whales and other en-dangered animals, visit www.wcs.org.

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