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In Marlborough, Mark Johnson and Deanna Clement monitor a deployed D-tag through the night. “What we’re addressing is the second-by-second fine-scale behaviour of the animal,” says Johnson. “How do they go about finding food? How often do they find food? What do they do when they find food?”
The answers will illuminate the lives of these dolphins. They might also save some. “Are there things they do that, for example, could lead to an elevated risk of entanglement in fishing gear?”
As the tags on the dolphins pinged back, scientists started to realise how limited our understanding of the species was.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.
Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.
The answers will illuminate the lives of these dolphins. They might also save some. “Are there things they do that, for example, could lead to an elevated risk of entanglement in fishing gear?”
As the tags on the dolphins pinged back, scientists started to realise how limited our understanding of the species was.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.
Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.
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