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- 9782384690541
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- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 25/04/2022
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- anglais
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The history of dolphins is one of the most fascinating and instructive in the
history of ideas in the western world. Indeed, it provides one of the most
illuminating examples of what has probably occurred many times in human
culture – a virtually complete loss of knowledge, at least in most segments of
the culture, of what was formerly well understood by generations of men.
Dolphins are mammals. They belong in the order Cetacea, suborder Odontoceti,
family Delphinidae. Within the Delphinidae there are some twenty-two genera
and about fifty-five species. The count includes the Killer Whale, the False
Killer Whale, the White Whale, and the Pilot Whale, all of which are true
dolphins. There are two subfamilies, the Delphinapterinae, consisting of the
two genera Monodon monocerus, the Narwhal, and Delphinapterus leucas, the
White Whale or Beluga. These two genera are distinguished by the fact that
none of the neck vertebrae are fused, whereas in all remaining genera,
embraced in the subfamily Delphininae, at least the first and second neck
vertebrae are fused.
It was Aristotle in his History of Animals (521b) who first classified whales,
porpoises, and dolphins as Cetacea, τὰ κήτη οῖον δελφις καὶ φωκαὶνα καὶ
φάλαινα. Aristotle’s account of the Cetacea was astonishingly accurately
written, and quite evidently from firsthand knowledge of these animals...
history of ideas in the western world. Indeed, it provides one of the most
illuminating examples of what has probably occurred many times in human
culture – a virtually complete loss of knowledge, at least in most segments of
the culture, of what was formerly well understood by generations of men.
Dolphins are mammals. They belong in the order Cetacea, suborder Odontoceti,
family Delphinidae. Within the Delphinidae there are some twenty-two genera
and about fifty-five species. The count includes the Killer Whale, the False
Killer Whale, the White Whale, and the Pilot Whale, all of which are true
dolphins. There are two subfamilies, the Delphinapterinae, consisting of the
two genera Monodon monocerus, the Narwhal, and Delphinapterus leucas, the
White Whale or Beluga. These two genera are distinguished by the fact that
none of the neck vertebrae are fused, whereas in all remaining genera,
embraced in the subfamily Delphininae, at least the first and second neck
vertebrae are fused.
It was Aristotle in his History of Animals (521b) who first classified whales,
porpoises, and dolphins as Cetacea, τὰ κήτη οῖον δελφις καὶ φωκαὶνα καὶ
φάλαινα. Aristotle’s account of the Cetacea was astonishingly accurately
written, and quite evidently from firsthand knowledge of these animals...
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