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PostHeaderIcon Physiology, Metabolism, Energetics, Thermoregulation, Diving, Senses




Acevedo-Gutierrez A., Croll D.A., Tershy B.R. 2002. High feeding costs limit dive times in largest whales. The Journal of Experimental Biology 205:1747-1753.

Baird R.W., Borsani J.F., Bradley Hanson M., Tyack P.L. 2002. Diving and night-time behavior of long-finned pilot whales in the Ligurian Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 237: 301-305.

Castellini M. 2000. History of polar whaling: insights into the physiology of the great whales. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 126:153-159.

Castellini M.A., Rivera P.M., Castellini J.M. 2002. Biochemical aspects of pressure tolerance in marine mammals. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 133:893-899.

Croll D.A., Acevedo-Gutiérrez A., Tershy B.R., Urbàn-Ramìrez J. 2001. The diving behavior of blue and fin whales: is dive duration shorter than expected based on oxygen stores? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 129:797-809.

Dunkin R.C., McLellan W.A., Blum J.E., Pabst D.A. 2005. The ontogenetic changes in the thermal properties of blubber from Atlantic bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus. The Journal of Experimental Biology 208(8):1469-1480.

Evans K., Hindell A., Thiede D. 2003. Body fat and condition in sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters. Comparative Biochemistry and Physioligy Patr A 134:847-862.

Hooker S.K., Baird R.W. 2001. Diving and ranging behaviour of odontocetes: a methodological review and critique. Mammal Rev. 31(1):81-105.

Moore M.J., Early G.A. 2004. Cumulative sperm whale bone damage and the bends. Science 306:2215-2221.

Noren A.R., Lacave G., Wells R.S., Williams T.M. 2002. The development of blood oxygen stores in bottlenose dolphins: implications for diving capacity. J. Zool., Lond. 258:105-113.

Noren S.R., Cuccurullo V., Williams T.M. 2004. The development of diving bradycardia in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 174(2):139-147.

Nowacek D.P., Johnson M.P., Tyack P.L., Shorter K.A., McLellan W.A., Pabst D.A. 2001. Buoyant balaenids: the ups and downs of buoyancy in right whales. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268:1811-1816.

Peichl L., Behrmann G., Kroeger R.H.H. 2001. For whales and seals the ocean is not blue: a visual pigment loss in marine mammals. European Journal of Neuroscience 13:1520-1528.

Rigdway S.H., Howard R. 1979. Dolphin lung collapse and intramuscular circulation during free diving: evidence from nitrogen washout. Science 206:1182-1184.