If you are not deploying your MiniPAT tags shortly after receipt and will be storing them for a month or longer, you will want to minimize battery passivation and keep the batteries charged. When stored correctly, the amount of battery life lost per year is only 1-2 percent. Before storing them—in a cool,...
The authors used a new modeling framework that accounted for nuances like locational error and animal movement with Argos telemetry data to examine the effect of covariates on site selection and to obtain population-level inference concerning central place use for Harbor seals in Alaska. This...
The authors looked at over 15 years of data from Wildlife Computers PAT tags and others for white sharks around the Southeastern Indian Ocean. They looked at over 109,000 km of tracks and found that the sharks use the shelf-slope canyons and the Neptune Island Group...
This study looks at humpback whales in the Chesterfield-Bellona archipelago and how they are surviving two centuries after whaling almost made them extinct. Using Wildlife Computers SPLASH10 tags, the authors tracked locations in conjunction with photo IDs to identify 95 whales. This study shows the archipelago is suitable...
This paper demonstrated the use of Depth-Temperature profiles from Wildlife Computers PAT tags, and high-resolution oceanographic models to estimate the movement of basking sharks in the western Atlantic. Basking sharks generally dive too deep to measure dawn and dusk light levels thus are a challenge for light-based...
This study used concurrent Fastloc GPS and Argos satellite data obtained from Advanced Dive Behavior (ADB) tags developed by Wildlife Computers to assess Argos location errors for sperm, blue, and fin whales. Location accuracy estimates for blue and fin whales were broadly within the range...
Using satellite tracking and dive recording, this study characterized vertical and horizontal movements of humpback whales in coastal and pelagic habitats of the Coral Sea during the breeding season. 18 humpback whales were outfitted with Wildlife Computers SPLASH10 tags to gather data on almost 8,000 dives above...
This study follows the rescue of a common bottlenose dolphin who remained in freshwater for at least 32 days. After rehab, the dolphin was outfitted with a Wildlife Computers SPOT tag to track the dolphin’s location. Unfortunately, twelve weeks after release, the dolphin was found...
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Studying where marine predators find prey and what type of prey they attempt to capture is challenging. The authors of this paper specifically wanted to test the hypothesis that anti-predator light flashes from bioluminescent prey would be closely associated with prey capture attempts. To test...