Note: All authors are credited here as thier names appear in the primary literature in question. For this reason, certain names apear multiple times in different forms. Do not be fooled.

 

Header Image from www. dolphinear.com (Accessed Oct 2010)

Index page image from http://190.karlcleveland.com/2009_09_01_archive.html (Accessed Nov 20, 2010).

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fytkUHwrgaE&feature=fvw (Accessed Nov 21, 2010).

 

In "Phylogeny"

J. G. M. Thewissen, M. J. Cohn, L. S. Stevens,S. Bajpai, J. Heyning, W. E. Horton, Jr.: "Developmental Basis For Hind-Limb Loss In Dolphins and Origin of the Cetacean Bodyplan." Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 22, May 30, 2006.

Fernando Nottebohm: "The Origins of Vocal Learning." The American Naturlaist, Vol. 106, No. 947, Jan-Feb 1972.

Annalisa Berta, "What Is A Whale?" Science, New Series, Vol. 263, No. 5144, Jan 14, 1994.

 

In "Ontogeny"

Andrew D. Foote, Rachael M. Griffin, David Howitt, Lisa Larsson, Patrick J. O. Miller and A. Rus Hoelzel. "Killer whales are capable of vocal learning." Biology Letters, Vol. 2, No. 4. December 22, 2006

Eduardo Mercado III, Louis M. Herman, and Adam A. Pack. " Song copying by humpback whales: themes and variations." Animal Cognition. Vol. 8, No. 2. April 2005

 

In "Mechanism"

Roger S. Payne and Scott McVay. "Songs of Humpback Whales." Science. Vol. 173, No. 3997. August13, 1971

Joy S. Reidenberg and Jeffery T. Laitman. "Discovery of a Low Frequency Sound Source in Mysticeti (Baleen Whales): Anatomical Establishment of a Vocal Fold Homolog". The Anatomical Record. Vol. 290, Issue 6. June 2007


In "Adaptive Value"

Mark Johnson, Peter T. Madsen, Walter M. X. Zimmer, Natacha Aguilar de Soto and Peter L. Tyack, "Beaked Whales Echolocate on Prey." Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Vol. 271, Supplement 6, Dec 7, 2004.

Stephanie L. Watwood, Patrick J. O. Miller, Mark Johnson, Peter T. Madsen and Peter L. Tyack, "Deep Diving Foraging Behavior of Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus)." Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 75, 2006.

Peter Tyack, "Differential Responses of Humpback Whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, to Playback of Song or Social Sounds." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1983.