News tagged with satellite transmitter

Freeing loggerhead turtles comes at a price

When loggerhead turtles are accidentally captured by humans, a recovery process follows, the complexity of which varies according to the turtle's injuries. Spanish researchers have analysed the process of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia

(AP) -- One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Killer whales migrate, study finds, but why?

Some killer whales, a study published Wednesday shows for the first time, wander nearly 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) from Antarctica's Southern Ocean into tropical waters -- but not to feed or breed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Sturgeon's death highlights threat to ancient fish

(AP) -- Alas, poor Harald. Wired up to a satellite transmitter, he had much to teach science about the life of the great sturgeons of the Danube River and Black Sea.

Biology / Ecology

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Africa's sea turtles need passports for protection

Satellite tracking of olive ridley sea turtles off the coast of Central Africa has revealed that existing protected areas may be inadequate to safeguard turtles from fishing nets, according to scientists with ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Golden eagles studied by satellite

Large-scale wind farm establishment may have a negative effect on Sweden's golden eagles. In a unique project in northern Sweden, scientists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) are trapping ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seal bulls in the service of science

"Gustavo" is an imposing bull always in search of the best feeding grounds. The elephant seal weighing 3 tons and measuring 4 metres in length belongs to a group of 14 animals that serve researchers of the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists track green turtle’s 900km migration

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Exeter scientists are part of the first team to monitor a sea turtle's journey from the Turks and Caicos Islands. The adult female green turtle, named ‘Suzie’ by local fishermen, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0