SPERM WHALE DIVES TRACKED BY RADIO TAG TELEMETRY

Autor: Romaine R. Maiefski, Douglas Wartzok, Nancy A. Dimarzio, Paul W. Howey, William A. Watkins, Amy Samuels, Mary Ann Daher, Kurt M. Fristrup
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Marine Mammal Science. 18:55-68
ISSN: 1748-7692
0824-0469
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01018.x
Popis: Dives of a 12-m sperm whale (Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758) were tracked in the southeast Caribbean by long range, 30 MHz radio tag with dive-profile telemetry over 4.6 d, 26 April-1 May 1995. Over the 295-km track, average speed was 0.7 m/sec (2.6 km/h). Of 158 dives (defined as submergences longer than 3 min), 65 were shallow (
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