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Article: Morton, Alexandra. Listening to whales; what the orcas have taught us.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- November 1, 2004
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MORTON, Alexandra. Listening to whales; what the orcas have taught us. Random House, Ballantine. 309p. illus. c2002. 0-345-44288-1. $14.95. SA
When Alexandra Morton was a young girl growing up in Connecticut she became fascinated with snakes and life at a frog pond and preferred watching the flight of a monarch butterfly instead of the actions of a ball game. She was hooked early on observing and trying to understand the natural world. This desire for knowledge led her first to work with the seminal dolphin researcher John Lilly, then to an early Marineland and finally to British Columbia, where Morton encountered the whale pod relatives of one of the orcas held ...