My final field season saw the monthly intensive boat-based photo-identification surveys come to an end after two years of data collection. We now concentrate our efforts on collecting theodolite tracking data in both Kealakekua Bay and Kauhako Bay, increasing our focal follow data and continuing to collect more bioacoustic data from our bottom-mounted loggers.
Spinner dolphins (listen to audio), false killer whales, rough-toothed dolphins and hammerhead sharks (see the video!)
We have now carried out 21 months of photographic-identification of spinner dolphins off Hawai’i Island. Over the past two months, we have encountered spinners dolphins, false killer whales, rough-toothed dolphins and hammerhead sharks. Read more here…
New publication on how ecological characteristics contribute to tool use in dolphins
Title and publication details: Tyne J.A, Loneragan N.R, Kopps A.M, Allen S.J, Krützen M and Bejder L. 2012. Ecological characteristics contribute to sponge distribution and tool use in bottlenose dolphins Tursiops sp. Marine Ecology Progress Series 444:143-153. Background Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in the eastern gulf of Shark Bay, Western Australia, have [...]
12 days of photo-identification each month
We systematically undertake individual photographic identification of Hawaiian spinner dolphins, in four resting bays along the Kona coast.
Focal Follow
Today, we headed south from Keauhou and at 8 am when we hit Miloli’i, approximately 7 miles
south of Kauhako Bay.
