The White Dolphins of Qinzhou

《钦州的白海豚》从多角度介绍了钦州白海豚的研究和保护的成果。从形态学特征、地理分布状况、分子生物学及相关的地质历史事件推测钦州白海豚的演化过程，还从形态学和古气象学角度分析了钦州白海豚与其他中华白海豚的差异；介绍了白海豚的空间分布及分布区的自然特征，以及对钦州白海豚种群数量的调查、有效繁殖群体大小的预测和计算；分析了白海豚的食物类型，白海豚的生存环境特征；最后还从钦州人的生态足迹以及钦州的发展介绍了钦州政府和人民无论是从原始朴素的情感还是政府的支持方面对白海豚保护所做出的努力。

《钦州的白海豚》虽是科学专著，但文笔流畅，通俗易懂，而且大量精美的图片，使图书易于阅读。这本书不但体现了老科学家对动物保护的执着与热爱，也体现了科技工作者在取得自然保护与经济发展双赢方面与政府一起做出的卓有成效的努力。

We took 180,000 photos, more than one thousand video clips and thousands of GPS location points. With these records, we gradually understand many aspects of white dolphins and their life, including their population,distribution,migration, estrus, mating, breeding and feeding. We paid special attention to the biodiversity of estuarine -coastal -neritic ecosystem  that white dolphins  rely on and the basin state of its inflow rivers, in order to figure out proper conservation tactics to maintain this white dolphin population. Our work has been based on a systematic study on the relationship between local ecological events and dynamics of the dolphin population.  This book present some of the findings from our nie years of research. Hopefully it can facilitate the understanding  of and draw more attention to the white dolphins in the Beibu Gulf. The secret life of the white dolphins will be unveiled from this book.    ---From preface 

pS