Jul 31, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Whale sharks are about the opposite of your archetypal shark. These gentle giants, the biggest fish in Earth’s oceans, are living on a steady diet of plankton (with the addition of small crustacean, fish and squids). There’s still a lot we don’t know about this...
Jul 24, 2018 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Polar bears live in a challenging environment for human beings, and getting close to them is not without dangers. Wildlife tracking using Argos PTTs has thus enabled us to know more about them. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is heavily dependent on sea ice, since...
Jul 23, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The french association APECS (Association for the Study and Conservation of Selachians) is a Brest association dedicated to the study and conservation of sharks and rays. The members of this association regularly use Argos tags to be able to follow the selected...
Jul 19, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Do you remember Rana? This is the turtle collected and treated for four years by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. After his release and the few adventures to find the camera that filmed his first 24h of freedom, Rana has already traveled more than 300km. The...
Jul 9, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola, is a very special bird as it is crepuscular. During the day, it rests in places where there is not much light. Thus, this species was not very well known before the first tracking – in 2006, as before that the lightest Argos...
Jul 3, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Around the 21st of June, as part of an action led by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Robert Calcagno, Damien Chevalier & Olivier Brunel released a sea turtle named Rana who had been receiving treatment for four years. To monitor its evolution an animal...
