🚨Paper alert🚨

First records of live franciscana dolphins (Pontoporia blainvillei) in western Ilha Grande Bay, at FMA-IIa’s northern limit. Sightings are mainly within ESEC Tamoios, highlighting this MPA’s key role in reducing bycatch risks for this elusive population.

doi.org/10.1578/AM.5...

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✨🐬 What a great time with our fieldwork team! To optimize our costs, we grouped different projects for data collection: here we have demographics, social, bioacoustics, behavioral and sea birds.

Time and budget management can be an exhaustive task, but definitely worth it every day!

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🌊☀️ Brown noddy (Anous stolidus), surprise of the day!

A quite rare record for the region, found when we were looking for the Guiana dolphins! It's curious how many unexpected things happen when we are on field work 🦑🌎🧪

✨🐬 Sun is shining and about a hundred Guina dolphins on a fission-fusion group dynamic. Wonderful field day at the Ilha Grande Bay!

8/16 days done, still some to go! These have been great days with such a special team and lovely dolphin groups!

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🐬 A bit of our work today 🐬

We spotted five groups of Guiana dolphins on a beautiful morning at the Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Several research projects involved, led by our ECoMAR lab. Soon I'll be posting some more details of each and photos, as we're still here!

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🐬🐬🐬 And it's started! For the next few days, we'll be monitoring two of the largest populations of the endangered Guiana dolphin in Brazil. Soon I'll be posting some images, both of us and them! 🧪🦑🐬🌎

Every year we hold an internal workshop in our ecology lab (ECoMAR) where every member presents its project, so we can be updated from each other's work.

This year we had the opportunity to also learn with Liliane Lodi, who works for more than 30 years with marine mammals. Such a great time!

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Overcoming one of the major issues of publishing research papers in Brazil. 🧪🌎

A great workshop was today held by Wiley eds and Brazilian fellow researchers about the recent agreement made with CAPES promoting broad cover (and discounts) to publishing fees.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

🦭Just remembering my first sight of the Australian Sea Lion (Neophoca cinerea) at the Penguin Island, last November.

They form a male colony and use these beautiful beaches as a haulout site (i.e., a place on land to rest, breed, and moult), could get used to it!🏝️🌊🌞

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While other whales may find copepod densities low in surface waters, the fine baleen structure of the sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) allows them to efficiently filter these surface waters.
It’s no wonder that most times I’ve seen, they were just below the surface, breathing only occasionally
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Setting things up for the upcoming field works to monitor and research the Guiana dolphins inside an estuarine complex.

Also trying to discover how to be included on "Marine Life" and "Marine Mammals" #addOcean #MarMam #MarineMammals 🐬🐬🐬

🚨 New master's alert

How effective are marine protected areas for conserving dolphins and whales in a priority area for biodiversity conservation?

Giovana Paripinelli has just defended her master's, showing that most MPA in Ilha Grande Bay cover little of cetacean suitable areas.

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🚨 New master's alert!

What has changed in 20 years on habitat use by the Guiana dolphin in an anthropized bay?

Mari Leal has just defended her master's degree, showing that there has been a reduction of suitable areas due to the intensification of human activity in the region.

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Excited for this year's field work, sorting through photos from the past monitoring campaign of the Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) with the ECoMAR lab!

#marinemammals #guianadolphins