Please feel free to post any recommendations for Orca or Whale/Dolphin related books here.

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Thank you, Sea M.; please, if you are able, add those you feel good selections to your bibliography, and erase this note.

Hoyt, Erich. The Performing Orca: Why the Show Must Stop. Bath, Avon, England; Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. 1992.

Ford, John K.B., and Deborah Ford. “The Killer Whales of B.C.” Waters: Journal of the Vancouver Aquarium 5(1) Summer 1981: 1-32.

Ford, John K.B.”Call Traditions and Dialects of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in British Columbia.” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia. 1984.

_________. “Acoustic Behavior of Resident Killer Whales (O.O.) in British Columbia.” Canadian Journal of Zoology 67: 727-45. 1989.

_________. “Vocal Traditions Among Resident Killer Whales (O.O.) in the Coastal Waters of British Columbia.” Canadian Journal of Zoology 69:1454-83. 1991.

_________. “Family Fugues.” Natural History 3:68-76. 1991.

_________, Graeme M. Ellis, and Kenneth C. Balcomb. Killer Whales: The Natural History and Genealogy of Orcinus Orca in British Columbia and Washington State. Vancouver; University of British Columbia Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1994.

Knudtsen, Peter. Orca: Visions of the Killer Whale. Vancouver: Greystone Books. 1996.

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Au, Whitlow W. L.  The Sonar of Dolphins.  New York: Springer-Verlag Inc., 1993.

Banister, Dr. Keith and Dr. Andrew Cambell.  The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life.   New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1988.

Carwardine, Mark.  Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises.  New York:   Dorling Kindersley, Inc., 1992.

Couperus, A. S.  "Killer whales (Orcinus orca) scavenging on discards of freezer trawlers north east of Shetland islands."  Aquatic Animals, 20.1, 47-51, 1994.

Dahlheim, Marilyn Elayne.  "Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) depredation on longline catches of sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in Alaskan waters."   Seattle:  NWAFC Processed Report, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1988.

De Fabianis, Valeria Manferto and Laura Accomazzo.  Whales and Dolphins.   San Diego:  Thunder Bay Press, 1998.

Duffus, David A., and Philip Dearden.  "Recreational use, valuation, and management of killer whales (Orcinus orca) on Canada's Pacific coast."   Environmental Conservation, Vol. 20 (2), Summer 1993.

Ellis, Richard.  Dolphins and Porpoises.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989.

Herman, Louis M., ed.  Cetacean Behavior:  Mechanisms and Functions.   New York:  John Wiley and Sons, 1980.

Heyning, John E. and Marilyn E. Dahlheim.  Killer Whale-Orcinus orca.   Handbook of Marine Mammals, Vol. 6, 11: 281-322, 1999.

Jacobsen, Jeff.  "The Social Ways of Sleeping Orca." Whalewatcher.   San Pedro: The American Cetacean Society, Volume 24 (3), 1990.

Leatherwood, Stephen and Randall R. Reeves.  Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Eastern North Pacific and Adjacent Arctic Waters.  Toronto: Dover Publications, Inc., 1988.

Mitchell, Edward and Alan N. Baker.  "Age of reputedly old killer whale, Orcinus orca, 'Old Tom' from Eden, Twofold Bay, Australia."  Rep. International Whaling Commission, Special Issue 3, 1980.

Mann, Janet, Richard Connor, Peter Tyack, and Hal Whitehead.  Cetacean Societies.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press Ltd., 2000.

Nishiwaki, Masaharu and Chikao Handa.  "Killer whales caught in the coastal waters off Japan for recent 10 years."  The Scientific Reports of the Whale Research Institute, 13: 85-96, 1958.

Nowak, R. M. and J. L. Paradiso.  Walker's Mammals of the World.   Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Nuzzolo, Deborah.  Dolphin Discovery -- Bottlenose Dolphin Training and Interaction.  San Diego:  SeaWorld Education Department, 1999.

"Predation on a white shark by a killer whale and a possible case of competitive displacement."  Marine Mammal Science.  5(2):  563-568, April, 1999.

Visser, Ingrid N.  "Prolific body scars and collapsing dorsal fins on killer whales (Orcinus orca) in New Zealand waters."  Aquatic Mammals.   24.2, 71-81, 1998.

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Arnold, Caroline.  Killer Whale.  New York:  Morrow, 1994.

Gay, Tanner Ottley.  Whales and Dolphins in Action.  New York: Aladdin Books, 1991.

Gibbons, Gail.  Whales.  New York:  Holiday House, 1991.

Griggs, Tamar.  There's a Sound in the Sea, A Child's Eye-View of the Whale.   San Francisco:  The Scrimshaw Press, 1975.  (poetry and art by children)

Kovacs, Deborah.  All About Whales!  Bridgeport, Connecticut:   Third Story Books, 1994.

Lewis, Gary A.  Shamu's Best Friend.  Bridgeport, Connecticut:   Third Story Books, 1994.

Papastavrou, Vassili.  Eyewitness Books.  Whale.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Parker, Steve.  Whales and Dolphins.  San Francisco:  Sierra Club Books for Children, 1994.

Resnick, Jane.  All About Training Shamu.  Bridgeport, Connecticut:   Third Story Books, 1994.

Simon, Seymour.  Killer Whales.  New York:  J. B. Lippincott Co., 1978.

Spinelli, Eileen.  Whales.  Lincolnwood, Illinois:   Publications International Ltd., 1991.

Wexo, John Bonnett.  Zoobooks.  Whales.  San Diego:   Wildlife Education Ltd., 1992

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Lilly, John Cunningham. The Mind of the Dolphin. New York. Doubleday & Co. 1967.    Lilly, a neuroscientist, abandoned his 1950s invasive surgical approach to bottlenose dolphin study, recognizing their emotions and intelligence. While the insights of older research are colored with the dated "biocomputer" hypothesis of brains, now recognized to function in a far more complex manner, his work was seminal. He recognized it, too, as inhumane through using captive animals, and abandoned it, later forming the Human/Dolphin Foundation. But don't miss it if you find a copy.

Fichtelius, Karl-Erik, and Sverre Sjolander. Smarter Than Man? Intelligence in Whales, Dolphins, and Humans. New York. Pantheon Books. 1972.   A philosophical treatment, arising from the author's study of the brains of sperm whales, the largest on the planet, and of dolphins.

Doak, Wade. Encounters With Whales and Dolphins. Aukland, Hodder & Stoughton. 1988. New York, Sheridan House. 1989.   Accounts of meetings with many species of whales. While the experience of personal encounter is untranslatable - the recognition totally unlike other animal species - these reports (and any subsequent work of Project Interlock) will affirm your intuitions of why you have chosen to advocate for the Orca, the second largest brain on earth, after the sperm whale (and before certain self-important monkeys).

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