Climate change could make whale sharks more vulnerable to shipping threats
Whale sharks are among the world’s most emblematic and vulnerable species, living in the warm oceans of the tropics. In future, climate change could reshuffle their habitats, potentially also...
Pygmy Blue Whales Around Australia
Pygmy blue whales are migratory whales of the Southern hemisphere. Their migration leads them into areas where they can be threaten by anthropogenic activities. Argos satellite telemetry can help in...
Fin Whales from the Gulf of St Lawrence
Fin whales are a large species of whale, which behaviour and stocks are still uncertain. Tracking them using Argos telemetry tags enables to better assess...
Beluga Whales Avoid Ship Noises
Beluga whales are Arctic cetacean very sensitive to noises, including underwater ship noises. For a long time, scarcity of such ships in the region meant it wasn’t a concern. With ice-free routes...
A New Tag to Record Diving Behavior of Large Whales
A new tag dedicated to large whale has been developped and tested. It enables to record dive behaviors, using a software detection event to better summarize and compress the data to be used during...
Identifying Whale Migration Routes in the Global Oceans
WWF has just published a report using 30 years of tracking for a meta-analysis of whale migration routes over all the oceans. This map of “migration highways” should help in protecting whales in...
Argos Helps in Detecting Beluga Whale Feeding Sounds
Argos can help in understanding an endangered species behavior, by providing with locations but also collecting other data measured by a wide range of possible sensors. Some populations of beluga...
A Whale’s Slumber Detected in Argos Data
Animal tracking with Argos began in the 1980s. Improved techniques and satellite coverage now allow for much more tracking, with better resolutions. However, old tracks analysed with current methods...
Distribution of Baleen Whales in the Mid-North Atlantic Ocean
Baleen whales are highly migratory, going from low latitude in Winter to high-latitude waters in Summer. Satellite telemetry such as Argos has improved the knowledge of their distribution and...
Bowhead Whales, Auxiliary Oceanographers
Bowhead whales are crossing iced regions in spring. They dive along their path and the environmental parameters are recorded and transmitted if they are equipped with Argos satellite telemetry tags....
Argos Helps in Tracking Where Humpback Whales Feed
Humpback whales are long-range migrators, on the recovery after heavy whaling during more than 150 years. Understanding where they feed in the polar oceans, and why they might choose an area rather...
Argos Celebrates World Whale Day
Whales are some of the most fascinating creatures on Earth. They inhabit all of the world’s major oceans, including the Arctic, the Antarctic and the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and...
Understanding the Movement of Pygmy Blue Whales in New Zealand Waters
There is little known for cetacean species such as pygmy blue whales, but they are at the forefront of protection policies around the world. The distribution of those whales around New Zealand are...
Beluga Whales Followed by Argos Satellite Tags
Beluga whales are very difficult to observe, which is why scientists from the University of Washington use Argos satellite tags to better understand their behavior and the environment in which they...