A juvenile Great White shark that was on exhibit in the Monterey Bay Aquarium has been tagged and released into open ocean, and is being tracked in real time on this website. Apparently, he's headed to Mazatlan -- seems like a reasonable plan to me. The life histories of juvenile Great Whites aren't well known, so scientists are watching this guy with great interest.
You can check out many other satellite-tagged pelagic animals on that same site by clicking different species in the sidebar. Fun stuff.
[photo credit in linked article]
Enjoy spying on our open-ocean friends,
Bp
6 comments:
That's really cool. I like how the map they have shows you all of the animals, but it might be neat to see them separately as well...or maybe I just didn't look hard enough. :P
You can just click on one species in the left sidebar and it just shows you the track for that critter. Cleans up the mess bigtime.
cool stuff, if a bit weirdly presented.
So cool. Gotta put this one up, too. I'll h/t ya.
Make sure to explain a bit how to use the tracking site -- it's made by scientists I think... so, maybe not so intuitive LOL.
I.E. click on the species on the left
Also, if you click on a species, you have an option to see "livetime" streams of the routes as animations, very cool.
Make sure you check out the sea turtles too...hard to believe the distances they are traveling compared to all the other tracked animals on the map.
they are one of the studs of the ocean, to be sure
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