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...
"Yoshi the loggerhead turtle arrived in Cape Town in July 1997 on a Japanese fishing vessel as a small 2-kilogram juvenile with a very distinctive injury on the side of her shell. The captain of the fishing vessel contacted the Two Oceans Aquarium and asked...
Researchers studying North Atlantic blue whales used Wildlife Computers velocity-time-depth recorders to track feeding events. The study shows that during the day, blue whales dove deeper and performed fewer but longer feeding dives and performed more lunges per dive in the day. The study also...
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....
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Clients of Wildlife Computers, Our Redmond facility will be closed starting at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 25. This is in compliance with Washington State Governor Jay Inslee’s order for a statewide closure of non-essential businesses. Our facility will remain closed for two weeks....
Do you know what to do with your data after you download it from the Wildlife Computers Data Portal? Did you recover an instrument and need to figure out what to do with a full archive? Over the years, some of our amazing clients have...