Publications :: The Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia

Ford, J.K.B, G.M. Ellis, P.F. Olesiuk, and K.C. Balcomb. 2009. Linking killer whale survival and prey abundance: food limitation in the oceans’ apex predator? Biology Letters
Ford, J.K.B and R.R. Reeves. 2008. Fight or flight: antipredator strategies of baleen whales. Mammal Review 38:50-86
Ford, J.K.B., and Ellis, G.M. 2006. Selective foraging by fish-eating killer whales Orcinus orca in British Columbia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 316: 185-199
Trites, A.W., Deecke, V.B., Gregr, E.J., Ford, J.K.B., and Olesiuk, P.F. 2006. Killer whales, whaling and sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific: a comparative analysis of the dynamics of marine mammals in Alaska and British Columbia following commercial whaling. Marine Mammal Science in press
Deecke, V.B., Ford, J.K.B., and Slater, P.J.B. 2005. The vocal behaviour of mammal-eating killer whales: communicating with costly calls. Animal Behaviour 69:395-405
Ford, J.K.B. 2005. First records of long-beaked common dolphins, Delphinus capensis, in Canadian waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119:110-113
Ford, J.K.B., Ellis, G.M., Matkin, D.R., Balcomb, K.C., Briggs, D., and Morton, A.B. 2005. Killer whale attacks on minke whales: prey capture and antipredator tactics. Marine Mammal Science 21:603-618
Reisch, R., Ford, J.K.B., and Thomsen, F. 2005. Stability and group-specificity of stereotyped whistles in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, off British Columbia. Animal Behaviour 71:79-93
Au, W.W.L., Ford, J.K.B., Horne, J.K, and Newman Allman, K.A. 2004. Echolocation signals of free-ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca) and modeling of foraging for chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115:901-909
Vagle, S., Ford, J.K.B., Erickson, N., Hall-Patch, N., and Kamitakahara, G. 2004. Acoustic recording systems for baleen whales and killer whales on the west coast of Canada. Canadian Acoustics 32:23-32
Deecke, V.B., Slater, P.J.B., and Ford, J.K.B. 2002. Selective habituation shapes acoustic predator recognition in harbour seals. Nature, 420:171-173
Ford, J.K.B. 2002. Killer Whale Orcinus orca. In: Perrin, W.F., Wursig, B., and H.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, New York. pp. 669-676
Williams, R., Bain, D.E., Ford, J.K.B., and Trites, A.W. 2002. Behavioural responses of male killer whales to a ‘leapfrogging’ vessel. J. Cetacean Research and Management 4:305-310
Yurk, H., Barrett-Lennard, L., Ford, J.K.B., Matkin, C.O. 2002. Cultural transmission within maternal lineages: vocal clans in resident killer whales in southern Alaska. Animal Behaviour 63:1103-1119
Barrett-Lennard, L.G., Deecke, V.B., Yurk, H., and Ford, J.K.B. 2001. A sound approach to the study of culture. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 24:325-326
Ford, J.K.B., Ellis, G.M. and Balcomb, K.C. 2000. Killer Whales: The Natural History and Genealogy of Orcinus orca in British Columbia and Washington. Second Edition. UBC Press, Vancouver, and U. of Washington Press, Seattle. 102 pp
Ford, J.K.B., and Ellis, G.M. 1999. Transients: Mammal-Hunting Killer Whales of British Columbia, Washington, and Southeastern Alaska. UBC Press, Vancouver, and U. of Washington Press, Seattle. 96 pp
Ford, J.K.B. 1991. Vocal traditions among resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in coastal waters of British Columbia. Can. J. Zool. 69: 1454-1483
Ford, J.K.B. 1991. Vocal traditions among resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in coastal waters of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 69:1454-1483
Bigg, M.A., P.F. Olesiuk, G.M. Ellis, J.K.B. Ford & K.C. Balcomb III. 1990. Social organization and genealogy of resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters of British Columbia and Washington State. Rep. Int. Whal. Commn. (Special Issue 12): 383-405
Ford, J.K.B. 1989. Acoustic behaviour of resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in British Columbia. Can. J. Zool. 67: 727-745

Publications by John K.B. Ford