Researchers investigated the whales' movements, occupancy, behavior, and environmental drivers to inform conservation management. In 2015, a total of 13 satellite Wildlife Computers tags were deployed on blue whales. After analyzing all the data, researchers found that most whales traveled over the continental shelf to...
Researchers attached trackers to bowhead whales in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut (Canada), and used an optical plankton counter (OPC) and net collections to identify and enumerate copepod prey species through the water column. Eleven bowheads were equipped with Wildlife Computers SPLASH tags in Cumberland Sound between...
For the past 10 years, scientists from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, working with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, have been using Wildlife Computers tags to study white shark behavior, ecology, and natural history in the western North Atlantic. This research is primarily conducted...
Scientists use tracking tags to help them learn about the life of wild animals. Some tags are programmed to detach while others wash ashore after an animal dies. People may discover them while harvesting an animal or when walking in the woods or down the...
New research looks at the association of bio-physical conditions with movement patterns of large marine predators. Over five years between 2009 and 2015, researchers used Wildlife Computers high-resolution archival GPS tags to capture seal data on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. The research shows that environmental...
This study examined the habitat use patterns and seasonal migrations of the Atlantic halibut in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. They fitted 114 pop-up tags, including Wildlife Computers Mk-10s and MiniPATs, on halibut over five years. Researchers recovered 62 (56 were Wildlife Computers) of the...
Most rorqual whales forage almost exclusively by performing so-called feeding lunges. It's difficult to study rorqual foraging behavior through direct observation because most of the lunges are carried out deep in the water column. In this study, they used Wildlife Computer TDR tags in conjunction...
In this study, researchers investigated whether cold-stunned juvenile sea turtles resumed typical migratory and diving behaviors after rehabilitation. WildlifeComputers Mk10, SPLASH, and SPOT tags were programmed to send location data via the ARGOS system continually for one month and then switch to a 1-day-on/1-day-off duty cycle....
Do you ever need a quick snapshot or overview of which of your Argos tags have received data within the past 24 hours? This is especially useful if you are testing tags after long-term storage, initializing your tags prior to deployment, or interested in a...
Queen, a 388 lb. adult loggerhead sea turtle was released in October and immediately went on the move. Queen was admitted to the NY Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC) in July 2021 for DTS (Debilitated Turtle Syndrome). Unfortunately, there is no known cause for DTS, and...