{
  "version": 1,
  "lede": "Literature that shapes the questions",
  "mms": {
    "name": "Marine Mammal Science",
    "society": "https://marinemammalscience.org/journal/",
    "wiley": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17487692"
  },
  "papers": [
    {
      "id": "sayigh-2016-watkins",
      "title": "The Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database: An online, freely accessible resource",
      "authors": "Sayigh et al.",
      "year": 2016,
      "journal": "Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics",
      "doi": null,
      "url": "https://pubs.aip.org/asa/poma/article/27/1/040013/836962/The-Watkins-Marine-Mammal-Sound-Database-An-online",
      "tags": ["archives", "methods", "multi-species"],
      "note": "Documents the open Watkins WHOI archive · primary entry point for rights-honest multi-species pattern work."
    },
    {
      "id": "sharma-2024",
      "title": "Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations",
      "authors": "Sharma et al.",
      "year": 2024,
      "journal": "Nature Communications",
      "doi": "10.1038/s41467-024-47221-8",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47221-8",
      "tags": ["sound-structure", "sperm-whale", "combinatorial"],
      "note": "Evidence for contextual and combinatorial structure in codas · anchors structure-first reading of sperm whale sound."
    },
    {
      "id": "rendell-whitehead-2001",
      "title": "Culture in whales and dolphins",
      "authors": "Rendell & Whitehead",
      "year": 2001,
      "journal": "Behavioral and Brain Sciences",
      "doi": "10.1017/S0140525X0100396X",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0100396X",
      "tags": ["behaviour", "culture", "methods"],
      "note": "Frames culture as a testable claim in cetaceans · keeps social learning and dialects in the evidence lane."
    },
    {
      "id": "janik-sayigh-2013",
      "title": "Communication in bottlenose dolphins: 50 years of signature whistle research",
      "authors": "Janik & Sayigh",
      "year": 2013,
      "journal": "Journal of Comparative Physiology A",
      "doi": "10.1007/s00359-013-0817-7",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-013-0817-7",
      "tags": ["sound-structure", "dolphin", "identity"],
      "note": "Signature whistles as stable individual labels · model for unit catalogues with clear behavioural anchors."
    },
    {
      "id": "ford-1991",
      "title": "Vocal traditions among resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) in coastal waters of British Columbia",
      "authors": "Ford",
      "year": 1991,
      "journal": "Canadian Journal of Zoology",
      "doi": "10.1139/z91-206",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1139/z91-206",
      "tags": ["orca", "dialect", "repertoire"],
      "note": "Clan dialects as structured repertoires · comparative template for group-level sound structure."
    },
    {
      "id": "payne-mcvay-1971",
      "title": "Songs of humpback whales",
      "authors": "Payne & McVay",
      "year": 1971,
      "journal": "Science",
      "doi": "10.1126/science.173.3997.585",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.173.3997.585",
      "tags": ["sound-structure", "humpback", "sequence"],
      "note": "Classic hierarchical song structure · still the clear example of multi-level patterning in cetacean sound."
    },
    {
      "id": "marino-2007",
      "title": "Cetaceans have complex brains for complex cognition",
      "authors": "Marino et al.",
      "year": 2007,
      "journal": "PLOS Biology",
      "doi": "10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139",
      "tags": ["cognition", "intelligence", "evidence"],
      "note": "Cognitive complexity as a disciplined claim · useful when intelligence questions outrun communication data."
    },
    {
      "id": "tyack-2008",
      "title": "Implications for marine mammals of large-scale changes in the marine acoustic environment",
      "authors": "Tyack",
      "year": 2008,
      "journal": "Journal of Mammalogy",
      "doi": "10.1644/07-MAMM-S-307R.1",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1644/07-MAMM-S-307R.1",
      "tags": ["ecology", "noise", "methods"],
      "note": "Noise as context for vocal behaviour · structure cannot be read apart from the acoustic habitat."
    },
    {
      "id": "southall-2007",
      "title": "Marine mammal noise exposure criteria: Initial scientific recommendations",
      "authors": "Southall et al.",
      "year": 2007,
      "journal": "Aquatic Mammals",
      "doi": "10.1578/AM.33.4.2007.411",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.33.4.2007.411",
      "tags": ["ecology", "noise", "methods"],
      "note": "Shared criteria language for exposure · methods discipline when linking sound, behaviour, and human impact."
    },
    {
      "id": "whitehead-2003",
      "title": "Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean",
      "authors": "Whitehead",
      "year": 2003,
      "journal": "University of Chicago Press",
      "doi": null,
      "url": "https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3636624.html",
      "tags": ["sperm-whale", "behaviour", "social"],
      "note": "Social ecology of sperm whales · the behavioural frame that coda structure has to answer to."
    },
    {
      "id": "gero-2016",
      "title": "Individual, unit and vocal clan level identity cues in sperm whale codas",
      "authors": "Gero, Whitehead & Rendell",
      "year": 2016,
      "journal": "Royal Society Open Science",
      "doi": "10.1098/rsos.150372",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150372",
      "tags": ["sperm-whale", "coda", "identity"],
      "note": "Identity cues at individual, unit, and clan levels · joins structure to social scale without overclaiming meaning."
    }
  ]
}