Two Towns in Washington Take Steps Toward Recognizing the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas
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A Town in Washington Takes a Step Toward Recognizing the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas
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The array of high-tech tools included aerial drones, electronic fish finders and data loggers equipped with satellite telemetry, a gyroscope, hydrophone and an underwater camera. Attached to the killer whales with suction cups, these devices allowed the scientists to record what the whales see and hear, as well as their movements in the water, and their diving and hunting behaviour.
The video clips, collected from above and below the water, samples of which can be viewed here were arresting. Some of the images took our breath away, says team leader Andrew Trites, a professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Department of Zoology and the director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at UBC. “It was amazing to watch the whales rolling through the water and moving in three-dimensions.”