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Four Long-finned pilot whales (/Globicephala melas/) swimming by at the surface.

Four Long-finned pilot whales (/Globicephala melas/) swimming by at the surface.
Four Long-finned pilot whales (/Globicephala melas/) swimming by at the surface.
Four Long-finned pilot whales (/Globicephala melas/) swimming by at the surface.
Four Long-finned pilot whales (/Globicephala melas/) swimming by at the surface.
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Jensen, Frants
Four Long-finned pilot whales (/Globicephala melas/) swimming by at the surface.
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06/01/2011
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Image Of the Day caption:
Long-finned pilot whales roam in large pods with hundreds of individuals and cluster in smaller groups like this one, photographed in the Alboran Sea during a WHOI research expedition in 2011. Because of the whales offshore, deep-diving lifestyle, we know little about them. WHOI postdoctoral fellow Frants Jensen and WHOI/MIT Joint Program graduate student Nicholas Macfarlane launched a new expedition to the Strait of Gibraltar in August 2013, using non-invasive DTAGs developed at WHOI. The tags record whale movements and sounds in the deep, offering new insights into their ecology, behavior, and social interactions.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, vol. 50, no. 2, page 64:
With thousands of recordings of pilot whales like these and other marine mammals, scientists were confronted with a daunting amount of data.
Photo by Frants Jensen
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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