Tuesday 30 June, 6:30 PM EDT *Password Required* Join live to hear directly from recently graduated master’s student, Savanna Duda, about how bottlenose dolphin calves initiated physical contact differently based on their age and sex, and the age and sex of the receiver.
Kathleen shares insight from DCP's recent publication with data from bottlenose dolphins at the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences.
Data collection brought excellent underwater visibility and very social dolphins. Kathleen was greeted even before she got in the water to record the dolphin behavior. You can see ...
As expected, data collection was conducted as our first activity. We did collect space use data for a baseline and before before Manon collected the underwater data, as well as when she was ...
We spent a small bit of time outside today – for dolphin data collection. It was an overcast day and rather windy. The underwater visibility was not great – but the dolphins were social and ...
We had a great day that began with data collection at Bailey’s Key. We did our first space use data collection and got better at the surface observations. The dolphins were more calm at the beginning of the session but then ramped ...
Early AM data collection went well, and all students were not only on time but early! They did a good job with the data collection sheets and wrote down all their observations for the surface data sheets. (The only abbreviation they needed clarification on ...
Kathleen, Manon, and John conducted an AM data collection session. The smooth, glassy calm water below cryptically hides the schools of fish fluttering away from ...
StMU R3 collected their last AM data session this morning. We had EXCELLENT (WOW!!!!!) underwater visibility and observed lots of neat social behavior. Ronnie and several other dolphins were trying to catch fish from just below the water surface. Gracie used the ...
We collected data and watched Manon do the underwater session and Kathleen collect surface observations. It was obvious that Kami and Gizmo love Manon! They followed her and were ...