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Nova Atlantis Foundation
Nova Atlantis Foundation (www.nova-atlantis.org) is a research institute, based on Pico island, at the Azores. By conducting scientific research, the foundation aims to contribute to the conservation of the cetaceans of the Azores and their habitat.
Marley, one of five pilot whales on which we deployed a satellite tag this summer, has reached 122 days to date! She has been making large circles, covering at least 7,300 km, around the central and eastern group of the Azores archipelago, visiting the south coast of Pico three times during this period.
Our second longest deployment has been on Donatello, with 101 days to date. This individual shows quite a different pattern, remaining firmly resident on the southeast coast of Madeira. Although Donatello clearly moves around, his average distance per day is 21 km, one third of Marley’s 61 km. It is fascinating to see such diverse movement patterns between animals throughout Macaronesia!
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Wat gaaf om ze zo nog te volgen😍
While we stopped our field work almost two weeks ago, two pilot whales continue to generate new data on their whereabouts.
Here you see the route of our record-keeper ‘Marley’.
We deployed a satellite tag on 20 June, and so far she has been giving us 104 days of location data! Our number two is called ‘Donatello’ and has reached 84 days today, with all locations transmitted close to the south coast of Madeira.
Have a look at Marley’s travel path: 3 months in 10 seconds!
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It’s done……we made the last trip of the 2024 season, packed our stuff just after the full moon, closed the station, and changed worlds.
Time to reflect on the hottest summer ever: We made 102 surveys in 4 months and 4 days. A total of 270 hours spent at sea and countless hours scanning and searching from land. We crossed 2,580 km of water and saw animals during every trip. At sea, we identified 159 groups of our key species, the Risso’s dolphin (a minimum of 1,176 and a max of 1,329 animals counted). These number may look impressive but around a third of all sightings concerned our resident males from the IKB group. Overall, we see less nurseries in summertime and merely encounter the same groups with very few variations. Over the winter we will work out our data and hand over our report to DRAM, the local entity that provides us with the research permit.
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#25Season
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Prachtige foto’s en wat een goed werk verrichten jullie!!#trotsopjullie#😍🍀