Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Book review: Albatross. Their world, their ways. Wilson Bulletin, 121, 217-218.

Ballance, L. T., Anderson, R. C., Pitman, R. L., Stafford, K. M., Shaan, A., Waheed, Z., & Jr., R. L. Brownell. (2001). Cetacean sightings around the Republic of the Maldives, April 1998. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 3(2), 213-218.

Ballance, L. T., & Pitman, R. L.. (1998). Cetaceans of the Western Tropical Indian Ocean: Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Comparisons with Cetacean Communities of Two Other Tropical Ecosystems. Marine Mammal Science, 14(3), 429-459.

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2002). The changing status of marine birds breeding at San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Wilson Bulletin, 114(1), 11-19.

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C.. (2005). Clipperton Island: Pig sty, rat hole and booby prize. Marine Ornithology, 33, 193-194.

Wellard, R., Pitman, R. L., Durban, J. W., & Erbe, C.. (2020). Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 191228. doi:10.1098/rsos.191228

Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., et al.. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20(7), 908 - 916. doi:10.1101/gr.102954.109

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2012). Cooperative hunting behavior, prey selectivity and prey handling by pack ice killer whales (Orcinus orca), type B, in Antarctic Peninsula waters. Marine Mammal Science, 28(1), 16 - 36. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00453.x

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (1990). Daytime Feeding by Leach's Storm-Petrel on a Midwater Fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. The Condor, 92(2), 524. doi:10.2307/1368253

Feeney, R. F., Lavenberg, R. J., & Pitman, R. L.. (2010). Description of a complete Liopropoma larva from the Gulf of California (Mexico) and its comparison with L. fasciatum and L. longilepis (Actinopterygii: Epinephelidae). Ciencias Marinas, 36(1), 83 - 89. doi:10.7773/cm.v36i1.1674

Jefferson, T. A., Pitman, R. L., Leatherwood, S., & Dolar, M. L. L.. (1997). Developmental and sexual variation in the external appearance of Fraser's dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei). Aquatic Mammals, 23, 145-153.

Pitman, R. L., Perryman, W. L., LeRoi, D., & Eilers, E.. (2007). A Dwarf Form of Killer Whale in Antarctica. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(1), 43 - 48. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-118R1.1

Fiedler, P. C., Redfern, J. V., Van Noord, J., Hall, C., Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2013). Effects of a tropical cyclone on a pelagic ecosystem from the physical environment to top predators. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 484, 1 - 16. doi:10.3354/meps10378

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Sironi, M., Totterdell, J., Towers, J. R., & Wellard, R.. (2020). Enigmatic megafauna: type D killer whale in the Southern Ocean. Ecology, 101(1). doi:10.1002/ecy.2871

Turvey, S. T., Pitman, R. L., Taylor, B. L., Barlow, J., Akamatsu, T., Barrett, L. A., et al.. (2007). First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?. Biology Letters, 3(5), 537 - 540. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0292

Brooke, M. D. L., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Furness, R. W.. (2006). Fishery impacts on the food supplies of seabirds. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 52, 639-640.

Van Noord, J. E., Lewallen, E. A., & Pitman, R. L.. (2013). Flyingfish feeding ecology in the eastern Pacific: prey partitioning within a speciose epipelagic community. Journal of Fish Biology, 83(2), 326 - 342. doi:10.1111/jfb.12173

Parsons, K. M., Durban, J. W., Burdin, A. M., Burkanov, V. N., Pitman, R. L., Barlow, J., et al.. (2013). Geographic Patterns of Genetic Differentiation among Killer Whales in the Northern North Pacific. Journal of Heredity, 104(6), 737 - 754. doi:10.1093/jhered/est037

Pitman, R. L., & Jehl, J. R.. (1998). Geographic variation and reassessment of species limits in “Masked” Boobies of the eastern Pacific. Wilson Bulletin, 110, 155-170.

Pitman, R. L., Deecke, V. B., Gabriele, C. M., Srinivasan, M., Black, N., Denkinger, J., et al.. (2017). Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?. Marine Mammal Science, 33(1), 7 - 58. doi:10.1111/mms.12343

Frazier, J. G., Fierstine, H. L., Beavers, S. C., Achaval, F., Suganuma, H., Pitman, R. L., et al.. (1994). Impalement of marine turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia: Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae) by billfishes (Osteichthyes, Perciformes: Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 39, 85-96.

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C. A.. (2012). Incidence of Wing Deformities (‘Angel Wing’) Among Masked Boobies at Clipperton Island: Life History Consequences and Insight into Etiology. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124(3), 597 - 602. doi:10.1676/11-208.1

Gualtieri, D., & Pitman, R. L.. (2019). Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Predation on a Gervais’ Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Aquatic Mammals, 45(2), 244 - 245. doi:10.1578/AM.45.2.2019.244

Pitman, R. L., & Dutton, P. H.. (2004). Killer Whale Predation on a Leatherback Turtle in the Northeast Pacific. Pacific Science, 58(3), 497 - 498. doi:10.1353/psc.2004.0034

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2010). Killer whale predation on penguins in Antarctica. Polar Biology, 33(11), 1589 - 1594. doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0853-5