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Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
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David Kirby (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 3,629 ratings
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Orca: The Whale Called Killer
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Erich Hoyt (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
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4.20 avg rating — 7,386 ratings
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The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
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Mark Leiren-Young (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 468 ratings
score: 865,
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Togetherness is Our Home: An Orca's Journey through Life
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna
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4.25 avg rating — 401 ratings
score: 735,
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Swimming with Orca: My Life with New Zealand's Killer Whales
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4.46 avg rating — 265 ratings
score: 721,
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Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
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4.51 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
score: 649,
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Operation Orca: Springer, Luna and the Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales
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4.22 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 549,
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A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight To Bring Lolita Home
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4.45 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 381,
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4 people voted
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Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
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Danielle Clode (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 288,
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3 people voted
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
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4.16 avg rating — 322 ratings
score: 277,
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Endangered Orcas: The Story of the Southern Residents
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4.76 avg rating — 145 ratings
score: 277,
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Orcas of the Gulf
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 273,
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The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas
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4.03 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Communicating With Orcas: The Whales' Perspective
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4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 175,
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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
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3.93 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
score: 166,
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Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin
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4.11 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 162,
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Whales and Dolphins: A Guide to the Biology and Behavior of Cetaceans
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4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Pink Dolphin Tale (Balu Baldauf #6)
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4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 100,
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Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World
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score: 100,
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
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4.16 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Alika Odyssey of a Navy Dolphin
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Donald E. Auten (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Year of the Whale
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3.95 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Stranded: Cetacea Chronicles Volume 1
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Feather Chelle (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 100,
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Leviathan: Or, The Whale
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3.93 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
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Tsunami Dolphins
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Justin Morgan (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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whales and dolphins
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 99,
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Whales Dolphins and Porpoises (Eyewitness Handbooks)
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4.37 avg rating — 231 ratings
score: 99,
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Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean
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4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 99,
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The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
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4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 99,
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Bottlenose Dolphins
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Paul Thompson (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 98,
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The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 98,
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
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3.88 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
score: 98,
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Dolphins
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 97,
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The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
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4.13 avg rating — 403 ratings
score: 97,
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Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey
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Brenda Peterson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 96,
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Dolphin Chronicles: One Woman's Quest to Understand the Sea's Most Mysterious Creatures
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Biology
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4.15 avg rating — 4,111 ratings
score: 95,
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Whales and Other Marine Mammals of Washington and Oregon
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 94,
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Marine Mammal Research: Conservation beyond Crisis
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 93,
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Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
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4.40 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 93,
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The Bottlenose Dolphin: Biology and Conservation
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4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 92,
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Namu, Quest for the Killer Whale
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3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 92,
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Biology of Marine Mammals
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 91,
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The Killer Whales: The Orcas of the Pacific Ocean
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 90,
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The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
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Hanne Strager (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 140 ratings
score: 90,
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Orca Encounters
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4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 87,
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A Pod of Killer Whales: The Mysterious Life of the Intelligent Orca
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 85,
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Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas
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3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 84,
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Gone Whaling: A Search for Orcas in Northwest Waters
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3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 83,
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Field Guide to the Orca (Sasquatch Field Guide Series)
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score: 81,
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Killer Whales: The Natural History and Genealogy of Orcinus Orca in British Columbia and Washington State
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4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 80,
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Der Gesang der Orcas
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4.01 avg rating — 711 ratings
score: 78,
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Orca: Visions of the Killer Whale
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4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Orca Calves
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Smarter than man?: Intelligence in whales, dolphins, and humans,
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Deep Blue: whales and dolphins of the Azores
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Whales and Dolphins: Cognition, Culture, Conservation and Human Perceptions
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Philippa Brakes (Editor)
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 70,
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Siwiti - A Whale's Story
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4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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In the Company of Whales
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Whalesong Trilogy
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4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Whalesong (Whalesong, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales
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3.73 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
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3.88 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales
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Janet Mann (Editor)
4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Dolphin and Whale Career Guide
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales & Dolphins
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4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings
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