Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman, R. L., Fearnbach, H., LeDuc, R., Gilpatrick, J. W., Ford, J. K. B., & Ballance, L. T.. (2007). Killer whales preying on a blue whale calf on the Costa Rica Dome: genetics, morphometrics, vocalizations and composition of the group. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management , 9(2), 151-158.

Pitman, R. L., O’Sullivan, S., & Mase, B.. (2003). Killer whales (Orcinus orca) attack a school of pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Mammals, 29(3), 321-324.

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Mesnick, S. L., & Chivers, S. J.. (2001). Killer whale predation on sperm whales: observations and implications. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):494-507, 17(3), 494-507.

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

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

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. (2006). Killer Whale. In Encyclopedia of the Antarctic (pp. 570-572). New York: Routledge.

Pitman, R. L. (2015). Killer whale. In Whales, dolphins and porpoises (pp. 150-151). East Sussex, UK: Ivy Press.

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus). In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2nd ed., pp. 600 - 602). San Diego: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-373553-9.00140-1

Pitman, R. L. (2018). Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale: Indopacetus pacificus. In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (3rd ed., pp. 509 - 512). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-804327-1.00157-6

Pitman, R. L. (2002). Indo- Pacific Beaked Whale (Indopacetus pacificus). In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (pp. 615-617).

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

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., 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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., 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

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.

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

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