02248cam a2200397 i 4500 144399190 TxAuBib 20130913120000.0 050308t20042003||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780060566685 pbk. 006056668X pbk. TxAuBib rda Moore, Christopher, 1957- Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings [(PB)] / Christopher Moore. Fluke. I know why the winged whale sings. 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2004. ©2003. 321 p. ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : William Morrow, 2003. Song -- Jonah's people -- Source -- Author's notes -- Acknowledgments. Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing, not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (ne Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot, and his research facility is trashed, Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best. Gary C. Hoppenstand adventure fiction collection. 20130913. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Midlife crisis Fiction. Humpback whale Fiction. Whale sounds Fiction. Hawaii Fiction. Psychological fiction. Humorous fiction.