We wrapped up our early summer field season this week with three excellent days off Cape Hatteras. Overall, we deployed 15 satellite-linked transmitters: 10 on short-finned pilot whales, 3 on Cuvier’s beaked whales and one each on a pelagic bottlenose dolphin and a sperm whale (our first tag deployment on […]
Monthly Archives: June 2015
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This past week we’ve been working on our Deep Divers project – looking at the feeding ecology and diving behavior of three species of deep-diving odontocetes off Cape Hatteras: Cuvier’s beaked whales, short-finned pilot whales and sperm whales. The latter have yet to make an appearance, so we’ve been focusing […]