Killer whale captivity studies and reports:
• Olesiuk, P.F., M.A. Bigg and G.M. Ellis. (1990). Life history and population dynamics of resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters of British Columbia and Washington State. (ABSTRACT)
• Hoelzel, A. Rus. (1991). Killer whale predation on marine mammals at Punta Norte, Argentina; food sharing, provisioning and foraging strategy. (ABSTRACT)
• Ford, J.K.B., G.M. Ellis, L.G. Barrett-Lennard, A.B. Morton, R.S. Palm, and K.C. Balcomb III. (1999). Dietary specialization in two sympatric populations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in coastal British Columbia and adjacent waters. (ABSTRACT)
• Smith, J.C., K.M. Balcomb-Bartok, K.M., R.W. Osborne, R.W., and K.C. Balcomb III. (1999) The L25 subpod of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Dyes Inlet, Washington (1997). (ABSTRACT)
• Baird, Robin W. and Hal Whitehead. (2000). Social organization of mammal-eating killer whales: group stability and dispersal patterns. (ABSTRACT)
• Ross, Peter S.; G. M. Ellis; M. G. Ikonomou; L. G. Barrett-Lennard; and R. F. Addison. (2000). High PCB concentrations in free-ranging Pacific killer whales, Orcinus orca: Effect of age, sex and dietary preference. (ABSTRACT)
• Saulitis, Eva, Lance Barrett-Lennard, Kathy Heise, Graeme Ellis. (2000). Foraging strategies of sympatric killer whale (Orcinus orca) populations in Prince William Sound, Alaska. (ABSTRACT)
• Scheel, D.; Craig O. Matkin and Eva Saulitis. (2001). Distribution of killer whale (Orcinus orca) pods in Prince William Sound, Alaska 1984-1996. (ABSTRACT)
• Hoelzel, A. Rus, Ada Natoli, Marilyn E. Dahlheim, Carlos Olavarria, Robin W. Baird and Nancy A. Black (2002). Low worldwide genetic diversity in the killer whale (Orcinus orca): implications for demographic history. (ABSTRACT)
• Dr. Peter S. Ross. (2002) Killer whales as sentinels of marine ecosystem contamination. (ABSTRACT)
• Williams, Rob, Andrew W. Trites, and David E. Bain. (2002). Behavioural responses of killer whales (Orcinus orca) to whale-watching boats: opportunistic observations and experimental approaches. (ABSTRACT)
• Pitman, Robert L. (2003). Good whale hunting: two tantalizing Russian reports take the author on a quest to the Antarctic, in search of two previously unrecognized kinds of killer whale. (ABSTRACT)
• Marino, Lori; Chet C. Sherwood, Bradley N. Delman, Cheuk Y. Tang, Thomas P. Naidich, Patrick R. Hof. Neuroanatomy of the killer whale (Orcinus orca) from magnetic resonance images. (ABSTRACT)
• Rayne, Sierra, Michael G. Ikonomou, Peter S. Ross, Graeme M. Ellis, Lance G. Barrett-Lennard. (2004). PBDEs, PBBs, and PCNs in Three Communities of Free-Ranging Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) from the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. (ABSTRACT)
• Balcomb, K.C., Parsons, K.M., Wade, P.R. (draft, unpub. 2005). Conservation of the Southern Resident killer whale poulation: a preliminary look at dynamic survival rates and environmental covariates. (Dynamic Survival Rates and Environmental Covariates. (ABSTRACT)
• Ford, John K.B., Graeme M. Ellis. (2005). Prey selection and food sharing by fish-eating ‘resident’ killer whales (Orcinus orca) in British-Columbia. (ABSTRACT)
• Ford, John K.B., Graeme M. Ellis. (2005). Selective foraging by fish-eating killer whales Orcinus orca in British Columbia. (ABSTRACT) (PDF)
• Ford, J.K.B., G.M. Ellis, P.F. Olesiuk. (2005). Linking Prey and Population Dynamics: did food limitation cause recent declines of 'resident' killer whales (Orcinus orca) in British Columbia? (ABSTRACT) (PDF)
• Baird, R.W., D.J. McSweeney, C. Bane, J. Barlow, D.R. Salden, L.K. Antoine, R.G. LeDuc and D.L. Webster. (2006). Killer whales in Hawaiian waters: information on population identity and feeding habits. (ABSTRACT)
• Morin, Phillip A. Richard G. LeDuc, Kelly M. Robertson, Nicole M. Hedrick, William F. Perrin, Michael Etnier, Paul Wade, Barbara L. Taylor. (2006). Genetic analysis of killer whale (Orcinus Orca) historical bone and tooth samples to identify western U.S. ecotypes. (ABSTRACT)
• Nousek, Anna E., Peter J.B. Slater, Chao Wang, Patrick J.O. Miller. (2006). The influence of social affiliation on individual vocal signatures of northern resident killer whales (Orcinus orca). (ABSTRACT)
• Zerbini, Alexandre N., Janice M. Waite, John W. Durban, Rick LeDuc, Marilyn E. Dahlheim and Paul R. Wade. (2006). Estimating abundance of killer whales in the nearshore waters of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands using line-transect sampling. (ABSTRACT)
• Burdin, Alexander M., Erich Hoyt, Olga A. Filatova, Tatyana Ivkovich, Karina Tarasyan and Hal Sato. (2007). Status of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in Eastern Kamchatka (Russian Far East) Based on Photo-Identification and Acoustic Studies. (ABSTRACT)
• Hickie, Brendan E., Peter S. Ross, Robie W. Macdonald, and John K. B. Ford. (2007). Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Face Protracted Health Risks Associated with Lifetime Exposure to PCBs. (ABSTRACT)
• Krahn, Margaret M., M. Bradley Hanson, Robin W. Baird, Richard H. Boyer, Douglas G. Burrows, Candice K. Emmons, John K.B. Ford, Linda L. Jones, Dawn P. Noren, Peter S. Ross, Gregory S. Schorr, Tracy K. Collier. (2007). Persistent organic pollutants and stable isotopes in biopsy samples (2004/2006) from Southern Resident killer whales. (ABSTRACT)
• Pitman, Robert L., Wayne L. Perryman, Don Leroi, and Erik Eilers. (2007) A dwarf form of killer whale in Antarctica. (ABSTRACT)
• Steiger, G.H., J. Calambokidis, J.M. Straley, L.M. Herman, S. Cerchio, D.R. Salden, J. Urbán-R, J.K. Jacobsen, O. von Ziegesar, K.C. Balcomb, C.M. Gabriele, M.E. Dahlheim, S. Uchida, J.K.B. Ford, P. Ladron de Guevara-P, M. Yamaguchi and J. Barlow. (2008). Geographic variation in killer whale attacks on humpback whales in the North Pacific: implications for predation pressure. (ABSTRACT)
• Matkin, C.O., E.L. Saulitas, G.M. Ellis, P. Olesiuk, and S.D. Rice. (2008). Ongoing population-level impacts on killer whales Orcinus orca following the Exxon Valdez' oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. (ABSTRACT)
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