EditorialWhalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialSperm whale, trump whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus (vulnerable). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Albert Massard after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Sna...
EditorialSowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens (Physeter bidens, two-toothed cachalot). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialWhalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialSperm whale, trump whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus (vulnerable). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Albert Massard after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Sna...
EditorialSowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens (Physeter bidens, two-toothed cachalot). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialSperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus (Physeter polycyphus). Vulnerable. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialSperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, being harpooned by whalers, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by James Stewart from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thi...
EditorialSperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, vulnerable 1, and narwhal or narwhale, Monodon monoceros, near threatened 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar...
EditorialSperm or trump whale, Physeter macrocephalus 1,2, vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialNarwhal or narwhale, Monodon monoceros, and sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus (vulnerable). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre,...