Per our partners at the FIU Marine Conservation Ecology Lab, dolphins are tracked to better understand their movements and predict how environmental changes and human activities affect their populations! The specific goal of this project, being condu
The dolphins are tagged with satellite-linked transmitters that report their locations and other data every-other-day. The very small and hydrodynamic tag is attached by means of a small pin through the trailing edge of the dorsal fin, and comes off
Per our partners at the FIU Marine Conservation Ecology Lab: "No, otherwise we would not want to do it, nor would we be allowed to do it, as these are federally protected species. The research is being conducted under a Marine Mammal Protection Act p