The haul-out function is much more useful than first meets the eye. Not only will it alert you if the tag comes out of the water but it also improves Argos tag initialization results by extending the initialization transmission duration due to the slower haul-out...
Back in March, the Loggerhead Marinelife Center released a turtle named Jane after 3 months of treatment. Jane was sporting a Wildlife Computers SPLASH10-F tag when she was released so biologists can track her movements and monitor her post-release behavior. We hope she is back...
We know not all animals can survive being released from a fishing net after an inadvertent capture, that’s one reason we developed the Wildlife Computers sPAT tag. This tag helps monitor the survivorship of an animal for up to 60 days after release. There are...
Do you know what’s stored in the Wildlife Computers MiniPAT archive? All your depth and temperature data with no time gaps. Check out this study of Atlantic Halibut to see what you can do when you combine transmitted and archived MiniPAT data. Read More ...
Instead of staying near Antarctic shelf breaks and enjoying ALL the krill, Antarctic minke whales appear to search for areas with gaps in the ice and then hang out there until the surrounding ice melts. It really is neat what you can discover with some...
Do you know how journals and funding agencies are all encouraging (or requiring) us to make tracking data publicly available in online databases? Studies like this are one of the reasons why. Requena et al (2020) used telemetry data from almost 400 animals to identify pelagic...
Check out this quarter's newsletter for a look at how our ATS data product was shown to measure activity and computes a summarized value of overall activity levels. Also, learn how to keep your tags stored long-term until you can get back on the water. ...
When you have animals that don’t move around a lot but you know their habitat is destined for dramatic changes, Fastloc® GPS can help identify those small-scale fluctuations. Eguchi et al (2020) recently used Fastloc tags to show that east Pacific green turtle residents in...
It would be super convenient for all our conservation & management partners if animals would stick to a nicely defined management zone and in their ‘assigned stock' but some species just don’t. Broadbill swordfish are apparently one of those species that makes things difficult. Even...
Do you know why the winged whale sings? Christopher Moore wrote an entertaining book about it back in 2003 (Fluke). Great book but we don’t think he really figured it out. However, Derville et al (2020) DID figure out that humpback whales use pelagic seamounts...