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Tweets from the field: tracking families of sperm whales since 2005.
Dominica, West Indiesthespermwhaleproject.orgJoined January 2011

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Working with and early on to create experiential learning opportunities on the water through our research has grown dramatically into the amazing Fellowships in collaboration with ! Meet the first team of Fellows!
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✨Please meet Whitney, Omari and Khade, the 2022/2023 CETI Fellows!✨ CETI's Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship is a community-based 10-month, multi-module training program for the next generation of conservation leaders in Dominica.
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The latest #PAMGuard reads sud files! #SoundTrap sud files can now be processed just like normal sound files without decompressing. It works in normal & viewer mode, also extracts on-device click detections & is super fast. Made by pamguard.org/news/news.php?
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PAMGuard version 2.02.06 is now available at pamguard.org. Two important fixes of memory leaks, and new functionality allowing the direct reading of SoundTrap SUD files.
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How huge are sperm whales? Now we know thanks to work by and team!
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How to weigh a sperm whale without a scale? Check out our latest #openaccess article published in #MarineMammalScience: ➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11 @marinemammalogy Many thanks to @FChristiansen83 & our collaborators at @DomWhale, Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, @ATursiops 👏🏻
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Sperm whale researchers from across the #Pacific team up to understand how cultural clans of whales broadcast their identity! We’ll done and team!
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1/10) Very happy to announce that our new paper is out in @PNASNews! We show evidence that sperm whale clans in the Pacific Ocean use identity codas as symbolic markers of vocal clan identity. Read the paper at: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2
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Felicia’s amazing work showing the way that spent whale clans in the eastern Caribbean have smaller home ranges and prefer specific islands!
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First PhD chapter published in RS Open Science! with @taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero and H.Whitehead! "Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs
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All of the whale families we study are on . If you are in #Dominica and take pictures of the whales, please contribute by sharing your pictures through Flukebook. Your pictures could help to better understand the whale families movements and habitat use!
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We have finally formalized Flukebook in a published methods paper in Mammalian Biology Special Issue: link.springer.com/article/10.100 We’ll done @WildMeORG!!
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Excited for this chat with and next week! Don’t forget to register!
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Next #SETITalks event: Whales, their song, their culture Tue, Feb 15, 11:00 AM PST We invited @EllenGarland4 and @sgero to describe their research and discuss the culture of whales, the understanding of their song, and @ProjectCETI. Register to attend: buff.ly/3IZSlvB
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#NatGeoExplorer ’s research on whale culture is incredible! Shane also worked closely with fellow Explorer and on #SecretsOfTheWhales, which just received an #Emmy award! Congrats to all, and thanks for inspiring compassion for whales 🐋
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Want to learn about culture and community? Just ask a sperm whale, says @InsideNatGeo's Shane Gero
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And now the hard work of translating the science into action and policy by brining culture into conservation frameworks that account for these crucial differences in communities. And protect the diversity within species beyond genetics! science.org/doi/abs/10.112
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