Newsletter April 2020
GPE3 provides light-based geolocation estimates of movements from the light data collected by our tags. Learn more about the key benefits of using this statistically robust tool....
GPE3 provides light-based geolocation estimates of movements from the light data collected by our tags. Learn more about the key benefits of using this statistically robust tool....
Step Lock is a function where the tag must complete the step it was programmed for before going on to the next one despite what the animal is doing. Step Lock can help save the tag’s battery especially when the tag will always be wet...
A few months ago we introduced the SPOT-395, a new Argos satellite tag for sub-adult “teenage” turtles. This tag—75 mm long and 86 g—stands up to any rugged marine application. It includes an Argos transmitter and temperature sensor and can last 345 days or more. We...
Mixing it up in Alaska: Habitat use of adult female Steller sea lions reveals a variety of foraging strategies Local indicators for global species: Pelagic sharks in the tropical northeast Atlantic, Cabo Verde islands region Migrations and movements of Atlantic tarpon revealed by two...
54 blue sharks were tagged with Wildlife Computers SPOT tags between 2004-2012. Researchers found out a lot of interesting facts about blue sharks including boys and girls like to hang out in different areas. However, during certain times of the year, they gravitate into the...
We’ve been seeing a lot of effort put forward in understanding how whales react to sonar. There are a lot of theories. One study examined the response of Blainville’s beaked whales to mid-frequency active sonar. One of the largest samples of beaked whales were tracked...
Elephant seals! Who doesn’t love an elephant seal? Researchers studied over 17,622 high-resolution dive profiles from Wildlife Computers tags to detect drift dives and buoyancy changes in southern elephant seals. This new method may lead to greater understanding of an elephant seal’s energy expenditure and...
The black caiman is a mystery. Like most crocodilians, they are an understudied group. A study, the first of its kind, showed research on dietary ecology and movement of the black caiman. Wildlife Computers SPLASH tags tracked 76 black caimans. The information from this study will...
Researchers used Wildlife Computers sPAT and MiniPAT tags to study survivorship of released bigeye thresher shark. These sharks are often bycatch of the new deep-set fishery off California. 14 sharks were tagged to study how they survived after being released or discarded. Read the story....
Scientists used two different Wildlife Computers SPLASH tags to gather baseline information on diving in relation to temperature and productivity in Loggerhead sea turtles. Turtles were tagged in the Gulf of Mexico where little data is available. Scientists looked at five frequency, frequency of dives...