{"id":1554,"date":"2016-06-06T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superpod.ml.duke.edu\/read\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2017-07-24T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:38:51","slug":"field-work-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/2016\/06\/06\/field-work-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Work Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a couple weeks of wind and rain, the weather gods smiled on us last week, and afforded us a chance to start our third year of satellite tagging work off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with Daniel Webster of Cascadia Research Collective. To date we have tagged forty short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus<\/em>), eight pelagic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus<\/em>), nine Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris<\/em>), and a single sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus<\/em>) and common dolphin (Delphinus delphis<\/em>). On our first day in the field in 2014 and 2015, we deployed satellite tags on Cuvier’s beaked whales, and 2016 did not disappoint, as we had two tags on Ziphius before 10:30 in the morning.<\/p>\n

The banner day continued with deployments on a bottlenose dolphin and short-finned pilot whale. But the day wasn\u2019t over yet, as just before heading back to shore we came across a group of approximately 200 Clymene dolphins (Stenella clymene<\/em>), a species we have NEVER observed from the vessel. Our aerial survey colleagues at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) have seen this species from the plane, but it was a still a great surprise for us. Even better, we were able to deploy a satellite tag on one individual, which will provide the first movement data for this species. And the fun didn\u2019t end on the water.<\/p>\n

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A Clymene dolphin Stenella clymene<\/em> off Cape Hatteras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After returning to the field house and comparing photographs to our species catalog, we confirmed that one of the Cuvier\u2019s beaked whales we tagged was in our photo-ID catalog, first observed in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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