Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
Lynn Brunelle
List price £16.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback (BB)
- ISBN:
- 9780823452286
- Published:
- 04 Jun 2024
- Publisher:
- Holiday House
- Dimensions:
- 48 pages - 228 x 279 x 10mm
Categories:
All living things must one day die, and Earth’s largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true ending. When this whale closes her eyes for the last time in her 90-year life, a process known as whale fall is just beginning. Her body will float to the surface, then slowly sink through the deep; from inflated behemoth to clean-picked skeleton, it will offer food and shelter at each stage to a vast diversity of organisms, over the course of a century and beyond.
Follow a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish.