First I must thank Margi Prideaux, Mark Simmonds, Michelle Grady, Sarah Dolman, Kate O’Connell, Chris Butler-Stroud, Nicolas Entrup, Cathy Williamson, Jess Feghali-Brown and everyone at WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, for their patience during the lengthy gestation period required to research and write this work. In particular, Alison Wood and Vanessa Williams at WDCS saw the project through from the beginning and never stopped giving support and encouragement. To say that it started out as one thing and gradually metamorphosed into something else – typical of many books and detailed research projects – is to understate matters. There were long interruptions due to other books and reports.
