Rach's Reading Club

"Note: Review: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and F..."

This was a really good book! Part of it was definitely dispiriting, but it was also really interesting and educational. For example, I had no idea there were so many types of killer whales. They're (as I understand it) all the same genetic species, officially, but they won't interbreed, even though they run into each other sometimes. They also eat different foods (transient ones eat seals while residents, local whales, eat fish, for example). They'll practically starve before eating the food of the other one. They also have different dive patterns (long dives for transients but dives of only 1/3 the time for local whales), different vocalizations, different vocalization patterns, etc. (Transient killer whales are very quiet, presumably to avoid detection by the local whales as they pass through, while those living mostly in a local area are quite loud and boisterous.) It was a very interesting book! I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. If this type of thing is of any interest to you, I certainly recommend it!