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The Dolphin report. Sea frontiers, v. 37,
Mar./Apr. 1991: 36-55. Dolphins. In The New book of popular science.
v. 5. Danbury, Conn., Grolier, c1990. p. 61-66. Wrsig, Bernd. Dolphins. Scientific American,
v. 240, Mar. 1979: 136-138, 140, 143-146, 148.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on dolphins can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs include the following: Highly Relevant
Baker, Mary L. Dolphins, Delphinidae. In her Whales,
dolphins, and porpoises of the world. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday,
1987. p. 83-163. Bonner, W. Nigel. Whales of the world. New
York, Facts on File, c1989. 191 p. Ellis, Richard. Dolphins and porpoises. New
York, Knopf; Distributed by Random House, 1982. 270 p. Evans, Peter G. H. The natural history of whales
& dolphins. New York, Facts on File Publications, c1987.
343 p. The Greenpeace book of dolphins. Edited by
John May. New York, Sterling Pub. Co., 1990. 159 p. Reeves, Randall R., and Stephen Leatherwood. The
Sea World book of dolphins. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
c1987. 111 p. Research on dolphins. Edited by M. M. Bryden,
Richard Harrison. Oxford, Eng., Clarendon Press; New York, Oxford
University Press, 1986. 478 p.
Behavioral biology of killer whales. Editors,
Barbara C. Kirkevold and Joan S. Lockard. New York, A.R. Liss, c1986.
457 p. (Zoo biology monographs, v. 1) The Bottlenose dolphin. Edited by Stephen Leatherwood,
Randall R. Reeves. San Diego, Academic Press, c1990. 653 p. Donoghue, Michael, and Annie Wheeler. Save the
dolphins. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Sheridan House, 1990. 119 p., 48
p. of plates. Gormley, Gerard. Orcas of the Gulf: a natural history.
San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, c1990. 205 p. Kastner, Paul, Joan Kastner, and Jessica A. Porter.
Gentle giants of the sea. By the Whale Museum. 2nd ed. Edited
by A. Russ Hoelzel. Friday Harbor, Wash., The Museum, 1986. 132,
48 p.
Hoyt, Erich. The whale called killer. New
York, Dutton, c1981. 226 p. O'Barry, Richard. Behind the dolphin smile.
With Keith Coulbourn. Chapel Hill, N.C., Algonquin Books of Chapel
Hill; Dallas, Tex., Taylor Pub. Co., 1988. 252 p. Ridgway, Sam H. The dolphin doctor: a pioneering
veterinarian remembers the extraordinary dolphin that inspired his
career. Dublin, N.H., Yankee Books, c1987. 159 p. Shane, Susan H. The bottlenose dolphin in the wild.
Felton, Calif., Dolphin Book, c1988. 48 p.
CRC handbook of marine mammal medicine: health,
disease, and rehabilitation. Editor, Leslie A. Dierauf. Boca
Raton, Fla., CRC Press, c1990. 735 p. Hoyt, Erich. The whale watcher's handbook.
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, c1984. 208 p. Leatherwood, Stephen, and Randall R. Reeves. The
Sierra Club handbook of whales and dolphins. San Francisco,
Sierra Club Books, c1983. 302 p. Minasian, Stanley M., Kenneth C. Balcomb, and Larry
A. Foster. Oceanic dolphins. In their The world's whales: the
complete illustrated guide. Washington, Smithsonian Books; New
York, Distributed by W. W. Norton, c1984. p. 118-185.
Bird, James E. Whales, whaling, dolphins, and
porpoises: an annotated bibliography. San Diego, American Cetacean
Society, 1977. 85 leaves. (American Cetacean Society. Publication,
no. ACSSD-1) Truitt, Deborah. Dolphins and porpoises: a comprehensive,
annotated bibliography of the smaller Cetacea. Detroit, Gale
Research Co., 1974. 582 p. Whitfield, William K. An annotated bibliography
of dolphin and porpoise families Delphinidae and Platanistidae.
St. Petersburg, Marine Research Laboratory, Florida Dept. of Natural
Resources, 1971. 104 p. (Marine Research Laboratory, St. Petersburg,
Fla. Special scientific report, no. 26)
Breeding dolphins: present status, suggestions
for the future. Edited by Sam H. Ridgway and Kurt Benirschke.
Prepared for Marine Mammal Commission, Washington, D.C. San Diego,
Zoological Society of San Diego, Nov. 1977. 308 p. Dolphin cognition and behavior: a comparative approach.
Edited by Ronald J. Schusterman, Jeanette A. Thomas, Forrest G.
Wood. Hillsdale, N.J., L. Erlbaum Associates, 1986. 393 p. International Whaling Commission. Report. 1949/50-
Cambridge. annual. Wells, Randall S., Michael D. Scott, and A. Blair
Irvine. The social structure of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins.
Current mammalogy, v. 1, 1987: 247-305.
Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1991. 118 p. Holt, Rennie S., and Stephanie N. Sexton. Monitoring
trends in dolphin abundance in the eastern tropical Pacific using
research vessels over a long sampling period: analyses of 1986 data,
the first year. In United States. National Marine Fisheries Service.
Fishery bulletin, v. 88, no. 1, 1990: 105-111. Leatherwood, Stephen, David K. Caldwell, and Howard
E. Winn. Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the western North
Atlantic: a guide to their identification. With special assistance
by William E. Schevill and Melba C. Caldwell. Seattle, U.S. Dept.
of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National
Marine Fisheries Service, 1976. 176 p. (NOAA technical report NMFS
CIRC, 396) United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Mass mortality of bottlenose dolphins in 1987-88: hearings before
the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee
on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One
Hundred First Congress, first session on the conclusions of the
clinical investigation of the 1987-88 mass mortality of the bottlenose
dolphins along the United States Central and South Atlantic coasts,
May 9, 10, 1989. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1989. 302 p. Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern
North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: a guide to their identification.
Stephen Leatherwood and others. With Appendix A on tagging by Larry
Hobbs. Seattle, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1982. 245 p.
(NOAA technical report NMFS circular, 444)
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature on dolphins are listed below. Some suggested terms are given as aids in searching. Consult reference librarian for location of abstracting and indexing services in the Science Reading Room. The following abstracting and indexing services, which should be used for more exhaustive searches, may be available only in large or specialized libraries.
Online data bases may be available in some libraries. Data bases likely to be useful for topics related to dolphins include Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Life Sciences Collection, MEDLINE, NTIS, SCISEARCH, and Zoological Record Online
Journals that often contain articles on chemical exposure, risk assessment, chemical safety and toxicology include:
Asper, Edward D., W. Glenn Young, and Michael T. Walsh.
Observations on the birth and development of a captive-born killer
whale. International zoo yearbook, v. 27, 1988: 295-304. Coe, James M., David B. Holts, and Richard W. Butler.
The "tuna-porpoise" problem: NMFS dolphin mortality reduction
research, 1970-81. Marine fisheries review, v. 46, no. 3,
1984: 18-33. Forcier-Beringer, Ann G. Talking with dolphins. Sea
frontiers/sea secrets, v. 32, Mar./Apr. 1986: 84-92. Hand, Douglas. Keeping an ear on Orcas. Oceans,
v. 20, July/Aug. 1987: 10-19, 59. Hoyt, Erich. The whales called "killer."
National geographic, v. 166, Aug. 1984: 220-237. Moore, P. W. B., and others. The critical interval
in dolphin echolocation: what is it? In Acoustical Society of
America. Journal, v. 76, July 1984: 314-317. Pryor, Karen, and others. A dolphin-human fishing
cooperative in Brazil. Marine mammal science, v. 6, Jan.
1990: 77-82. Shane, Susan H., Randall S. Wells, and Bernd Wrsig.
Ecology, behavior and social organization of the bottlenose dolphin:
a review. Marine mammal science, v. 2, Jan. 1986: 34-63.
Technical reports and other types of literature are indexed in the following guides:
SELECTED TECHNICAL REPORTS
Gilpatrick, James W., and others. Summary of distribution
records of the spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, and
the pantropical spotted dolphin, S. attenuata, from the western
Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Red Sea. La Jolla, CA, Southwest
Fisheries Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Oct.
1987. 43 p. (NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-89) Hill, P. Scott, Alan Jackson, and Tim Gerrodette.
Report of a marine mammal survey of the eastern tropical Pacific
aboard the research vessel McArthur, July 29-December 7, 1989.
La Jolla, CA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries
Center, June 1990. 141 p. (NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-143) Pawloski, Deborah A. Combined stimulus control
of peak frequency and source level in the echolocating dolphin (Tursiops
truncatus). San Diego, CA, Naval Ocean Systems Center, Mar. 1988.
24 p. Wilson, Carrie E., and others. Summary of worldwide
locality records of the striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba.
La Jolla, CA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries
Center, Dec. 1987. 71 p. (NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-90)
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Annotated bibliography of publications from the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program. San Diego, Naval Ocean Systems Center, July 1985. 56 p. (NOSC technical document 627, revision A) Blaylock, Robert A. Distribution and abundance of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1921), in Virginia. In United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Fishery bulletin, v. 86, Oct. 1988: 797-805. Ford, John K. B. Family fugues. Natural history, v. 100, Mar. 1991: 68-70, 72-74, 76. Kaplan, Justine. The day of the dolphins. Omni, v. 11, June 1989: 42-44, 46, 48, 94-96. Morrison, David C. Marine mammals join the Navy. Science, v. 242, Dec. 16, 1988: 1503-1504. Quammen, David. Who swims with the tuna? Outside, v. 15, Dec. 1990: 31-35. Tyack, Peter L., and Laela S. Sayigh. Those dolphins aren't just whistling in the dark. Oceanus, v. 32, spring 1989: 80-83. Wells, Randall S. Secrets of a high society. National wildlife, v. 27, Aug./Sept. 1989: 38-44.
To identify the current addresses of other relevant organizations and research projects, consult Conservation Directory (S920.C64 <SciRR>), Encyclopedia of Associations (AS22.E5 <SciRR>), Research Centers Directory (AS25.D5 <SciRR>), and Life Sciences Organizations and Agencies Directory (QH321.L54 1988 <SciRR>) under such keywords as Dolphin(s), Cetacea(ns), and Marine Mammals. |
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