Check out some new research that discusses where a tag is placed on an animal impacts its performance. Researchers studied Wildlife Computers LIMPET tags in two different positions on a killer whale. Implications of tag positioning and performance on the analysis of cetacean movement...
Wildlife Computers SPOT tags were used recently for direct measurement of swimming and diving kinematics of the giant Atlantic bluefin tuna. The study showed that high-resolution biologging tags coupled with video revealed that these tunas showed a “considerable repertoire of swimming patterns” that seem to...
The white shark is a complex apex predator. Scientists recently published research on quantifying movements and understanding juvenile white shark distribution. As I read through the paper, it seemed to me that juvenile white sharks were a lot like teenagers who dwell in the basement...
Researchers from the University of Washington are using Wildlife Computers tags on swordfish to understand where they are feeding and to gain insight into “deep-sea ecosystems.” Camrin Braun and Peter Gaube headed up this project. The paper, published in June, analyzed 16 swordfish tagged off...
This article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences outlines the use of Wildlife Computers MiniPAT tags to show predation on large immature Chinook salmon. The tags measured depth, temperature, and light. This data provided insight into the “natural mortality of this species...
The Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean is home to the world’s largest marine protected area and some pretty cool green turtles. In 2012, Graeme Hays and his team of intrepid biologists conducted one of the first satellite tracking studies on the green turtle in...
A Wildlife Computers MiniPAT tag was used to study the Mediterranean spearfish, one of the least studied billfish. Researchers documented its movements for 29 days. This study is the first that will begin to understand this species and lead to new attachment methods. Movement and thermal...
A recent study used implantable Wildlife Computers Life History Transmitters (LHX) with pop-up archival transmitter tags to improve location estimates. In this study, researchers were able to “classify mortality by cause and location by applying a time-reversed state-space modeling technique.” The data also provided “insight...
Remember 184? MMoME rescued him as a young, abandoned seal pup back in June from Kennebunkport, ME. He was rehabilitated at MMoME's center and after a full recovery, was released in early October. He was outfitted with a satellite tracking tag created by Wildlife Computers to...
Read the update from ICCAT on habitat use and migrations of shortfin Mako in the Atlantic. Two separate studies were undertaken—a study on stock boundaries, movement patterns, and habitat and one on post-release mortality of discarded specimens. Two models of Wildlife Computers tags were used...