And always with r/v Balaena a bit of pure sailing...⛵ #sailing

Prima facie evidence of lobtailing as a mobbing/gathering/social signal in this species 🤔🐋🦑🧪

Northern bottlenose are such a charming cetacean, vaguely absurd looking, but consistently showing a bold curiosity toward our vessel (and it's towed hydrophone!)

our operating area...

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And for those understandbly reluctant to click on the Mail, here too (side note I do have a mildly nonstandard surname but two different misspellings in the same article is a new personal best 🤣 Rendell 1-0 Proofreaders) :

@angelaamlin.bsky.social has joined bluesky! 🚨🐋🦑

This work is part of ongoing efforts on monk seal conservation by the Tethys organisation and will form the basis for building detectors to use long term passive monitoring for this species to monitor with minimal impact tethys.org/activities-o...

Concurrent UW GoPro footage showed the five most prevalent calls type - croaks, knocks, screams, snorts, and squirts, comprising ∼87% of the high-quality call dataset - being heard while multiple (always multiple) monk seals were in shot socially interacting (video from paper supplementary material)