cetology
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- Category:Cetology
- is the study of
- Cetacea
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- Cetology
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- History
- Studying cetaceans
- Identifying individuals
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Cetology (from Greek , kētos, "whale"; and , -logia) or whalelore (also known as whaleology) is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific infraorder Cetacea. Cetologists, or those who practice cetology, seek to understand and explain cetacean evolution, distribution, morphology, behavior, community dynamics, and other topics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cetology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.