Department of Biology

Articles in journals

• Stanton, M.A., & Mann, J. . "Early social networks predict survival in wild bottlenose dolphins.." PLoS One 7.10 (2012): e47508.
• Mann, J., Stanton, M.A., Patterson, E.M., Bienenstock, E.J., & Singh, L.O. . "Social networks reveal cultural behaviour in tool using dolphins." Nature Communications 3 (2012): 980.
• Krzyszczyk, E. & Mann, J. . "Why become speckled? Ontogeny and function of speckling in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Shark Bay, Australia ." Marine Mammal Science 28.2 (2012): 295-307.
• Tsai, Y.J. & Mann, J. "Dispersal, philopatry and the role of fission-fusion dynamics in bottlenose dolphins." Marine Mammal Science 28.3 (2012).
• Patterson, E.M. & Mann, J.. "Look, no hands." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (2012): 235-236.
• Krzyszczyk, E., Kopps, A., Bacher, K. Smith, H., Meighan, N. & Mann, J. . "A report on six cases of seagrass-associated gastric impaction in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)." Marine Mammal Science (2012).
• Patterson, EM, & Mann, J.. "The Ecological conditions that favor tool use and innovation in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)." PLoS One 6.7 (2011): e22243.
• Stanton, M.A., Gibson, Q.A., Mann, J. . "When mum’s away: A study of mother and calf ego networks during separations in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)." Animal Behaviour 82 (2011): 405-412.
• Frère, C.H., Mann, J., Krützen, M., Connor, R., Bejder, L., Sherwin, W.B. . "Nature and nurture: a step towards investigating their interactions in the wild." Communicative and Integrative Biology 4 (2011): 192-193.
• Frère C.H., Krützen M., Mann J., Connor R., Bejder L., Sherwin, W.B.. "Social and genetic interactions drive fitness variation in a wild population of bottlenose dolphins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.46 (2010): 19949-19954 .
• Frère C.H., Krzyszczyk, E., Patterson E.M., Hunter, S., Ginsburg, A., Mann, J. . "Thar she blows! A novel method for DNA collection from cetacean blow." PLoS One 5.8 (2010): e12299.
• Frère, C., Krützen M., Kopps, A., Ward, P., Mann, J., Sherwin, W.B. . "Inbreeding Tolerance and Fitness Costs in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins. ." Proceedings of the Royal Society-B 277.1694 (2010): 2667-2673.
• Frère, C., Krützen, M., Mann, J. Watson-Capps, J.J. Patterson, E. M., Tsai, Y.J., Connor, R., Bejder, L., Sherwin, W.B. . "Geographic proximity and both matrilineal and biparental kinship drive female associations in Shark Bay bottlenose dolphins.." Animal Behaviour 80.3 (2010): 481-486.
• Mann, J.. "Tool-use in Dolphins." Australasian Science (2009): 24-26.
• Sargeant, B.L & Mann, J.. "Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins." Animal Behaviour 78 (2009): 715-721.
• Gibson, Q.A. & Mann, J.. "Do sampling method and sample size affect basic measures of dolphin sociality?." Marine Mammal Science 25 (2009): 187-198.
• Mann, J., Sargeant, B.L., Watson-Capps, J., Gibson, Q., Heithaus, M.R., Connor, R.C., Patterson, E. . "Why do dolphins carry sponges?." PLoS One 3.12 (2008): e3868.
• Mann, J.. "Networking Squirrels." Animal Behaviour (2008).
• Gibson, Q.A. & Mann, J. "Early social development in wild bottlenose dolphins: sex differences, individual variation, and maternal influence." Animal Behaviour 76 (2008): 375-387.
• Gibson, Q.A. & Mann, J.. "The size and composition of wild bottlenose dolphin mother-calf (Tursiops sp.) groups in Shark Bay, Australia.." Animal Behaviour 76 (2008): 389-405.
• Sargeant, B.L., Wirsing, A.J., Heithaus, M.R., & Mann, J.. "Can environmental heterogeneity explain individual foraging variation in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)?." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61 (2007): 679-688..
• Mann, J., Sargeant, B.L., Minor, M. "Calf inspection of fish catches: Opportunities for oblique social learning? ." Marine Mammal Science 23.1 (2007): 197-202.
• Sargeant, B.L & Mann, J. "Defining and detecting innovation: Are cognitive and developmental mechanisms important?." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2007).
• Bejder, L., Samuels, A., Whitehead, H., Gales, N., Mann, J., Connor, R., Heithaus, M., Watson-Capps, J. & Flaherty, C. "Shift in habitat use by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) exposed to long-term anthropogenic disturbance." Conservation Biology 20.6 (2006): 1791-1798.
• Connor, R.C., Mann, J. and Watson-Capps, J.J. "A sex-specific affiliative contact behavior in Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops sp." Ethology 112 (2006): 631-638.
• Sargeant, B.L., Mann, J., Berggren, P. & Krützen M. "Specialization and development of beach hunting, a rare foraging behavior, by wild Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) ." Canadian Journal of Zoology 83.11 (2005): 1400-1410.
• Gero, S., Bejder, L., Whitehead, H., Mann, J. & Connor, R.C.. "Behaviourally Specific Preferred Associations in Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops sp." Canadian Journal of Zoology 83 (2005): 1566-1573.
• Krützen M., Mann, J., Heithaus, M.R., Connor, R.C., Bejder, L., and Sherwin, W.B. "Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102.25 (2005): 8939-8943.
• Watson-Capps, J. J. & Mann, J. "Measuring displacement of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) by an oyster farm in Shark Bay, Western Australia." Biological Conservation 124 (2005): 519-526 .
• Mann, J. and Watson-Capps, J. "Surviving at Sea: Ecological and behavioural predictors of calf mortality in Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) ." Animal Behaviour 69 (2005): 899-909.
• Scott, E., Mann, J., Watson-Capps, J.J., Sargeant, B.L., & Connor, R.C. "Aggression in bottlenose dolphins: Evidence for sexual coercion, male-male competition, and female tolerance through analysis of tooth-rake marks and behaviour." Behaviour 142 (2005): 21-44.
• Krützen M., Barre L.M., Connor R.C., Mann J., Sherwin W.B. "O father: where art thou? - Paternity assessment in an open fission-fusion society of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Shark Bay, Western Australia." Molecular Ecology 13 (2004): 1975-1990.
• Krützen M., Sherwin W.B., *Barre L.M., Connor R.C., Van de Casteele T., Mann J., Brooks R. "Contrasting relatedness patterns in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) with different alliance strategies." Proceedings of the Royal Society - Series B: Biological Sciences 270 .1514 (2003): 497-502.
• Mann, J. "Cetacean culture: Definitions and evidence." Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (Peer commentary) 24.2 (2001): 343.

Articles in books

• Mann, J. & Würsig, B. "Observing and quantifying delphinid behavior in the wild: Current problems, limitations and future directions." Primates and Cetaceans: Field Research and Conservation of Complex Mammalian Societies. Ed. J. Yamagiwa & L. Karczmarski. New York: Springer, 2013.
• Stanton, M. & Mann, J.. "Social Network Analysis: Applications to primate and cetacean societies." Primates and Cetaceans: Field Research and Conservation of Complex Mammalian Societies. Ed. J. Yamagiwa & L. Karczmarski. New York: Springer, 2013.
• Singh. L.O. & Mann, J. . "Modeling social preferences based on social interactions." Encyclopedia of Social Networks and Data Mining. Ed. To be added. : Springer-Verlag, 2013.
• Cords, M. & Mann J.. "Social conflict management in primates: Is there a case for dolphins?." Primates and Cetaceans: Field Research and Conservation of Complex Mammalian Societies. Ed. J. Yamagiwa & L. Karczmarski. : Springer-Verlag, 2013.
• Stanton, M. & Mann, J.. "Bottlenose Dolphins of Shark Bay: A case study for defining and measuring sociality." Primates and Cetaceans: Field Research and Conservation of Complex Mammalian Societies. Ed. J. Yamagiwa & L. Karczmarski. New York: Springer, 2010.
• Mann, J.. "Parental Behavior." Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Ed. W. F. Perrin, B. Würsig, & H. G. M. Thewissen. New York: Academic Press, 2009: 830-835
• Mann, J. & Sargeant, B.L.. "Tool-use in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins." Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Ed. W. F. Perrin, B. Würsig, & H. G. M. Thewissen. New York: Academic Press, 2009: 1171-1173
• Sargeant, B.L & Mann, J. "From social learning to culture: Intrapopulation variation in bottlenose dolphins." The Question of Animal Culture. Ed. B.G. Galef Jr. and K. N. Laland . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
• Mann, J.. "Establishing Trust: Sociosexual behaviour and the development of male-male bonds among Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin calves." Homosexual Behaviour in Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective. Ed. P. Vasey and V. Sommer . : Cambridge University Press, 2006: 107-130
• Connor, R.C. and Mann, J. "Social Cognition in the wild: Machiavellian dolphins?." Rational Animals. Ed. S. Hurley and M. Nudd . : Oxford University Press, 2005: 329-367
• Mann, J. and Sargeant, B. "Like mother, like calf: The ontogeny of foraging traditions in wild Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)." The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence. Ed. D. Fragaszy and S. Perry. : Cambridge University Press, 2003: 236-266

Edited books

• Mann, J., Connor, R., Tyack, P., Whitehead, H., ed. Cetacean Societies: Field studies of dolphins and whales. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Book reviews

• Mann, J.. "Brainiacs of Land and Sea." Quarterly Review of Biology 84.1 (2009): 98-99.