A new approach to tag design in dolphin telemetry: Computer simulations to minimise deleterious effects

Pavlov, Vadim; Wilson, Rory P.; Lücke, Klaus

doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.11.010

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“…While the horizontal and vertical movements of large marine vertebrates are being increasingly described (Priede 1984, Duron-Dufrenne 1987, Polovina et al 2000, Block et al 2005, Bonfil et al 2005, remote recording of accurate spatial movements made by smaller species or early life stages has been slower, due to the challenges of miniaturising power sources, development of attachment techniques and hydrodynamic packaging of equipment (Watson & Granger 1998, Wilson & McMahon 2006, Pavlov et al 2007, Godley et al 2008). …”

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Inferring vertical and horizontal movements of juvenile marine turtles from time-depth recorders

Witt¹,

McGowan²,

Blumenthal³

et al. 2010

Aquat. Biol.

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Inferring vertical and horizontal movements of juvenile marine turtles from time-depth recorders

Witt¹,

McGowan²,

Blumenthal³

et al. 2010

Aquat. Biol.

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“…Little is known about the longer term impact of suction cup tags on behaviour, movement, or skin condition, which will depend on the size of the tag (Wilson et al 1986, Pavlov et al 2007) and the stiffness of the cups. Irrespective of the number of cups or the shape of the tag, suction cup tags can slide on the animal or detach during high-speed swimming, breaching, or when contacted by another animal.…”

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Studying the behaviour and sensory ecology of marine mammals using acoustic recording tags: a review

Johnson¹,

Soto²,

Madsen³

2009

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Many marine animals use sound passively or actively for communication, foraging, predator avoidance, navigation, and to sense their environment. The advent of acoustic recording tags has allowed biologists to get the on-animal perspective of the sonic environment and, in combination with movement sensors, to relate sounds to the activities of the tagged animal. These powerful tools have led to a wide range of insights into the behaviour of marine animals and have opened new opportunities for studying the ways they interact with their environment. Acoustic tags demand new analysis methods and careful experimental design to optimize the consistency between research objectives and the realistic performance of the tags. Technical details to consider are the suitability of the tag attachment to a given species, the accuracy of the tag sensors, and the recording and attachment duration of the tag. Here we consider the achievements, potential, and limitations of acoustic recording tags in studying the behaviour, habitat use and sensory ecology of marine mammals, the taxon to which this technology has been most often applied. We examine the application of acoustic tags to studies of vocal behaviour, foraging ecology, acoustic tracking, and the effects of noise to assess both the breadth of applications and the specific issues that arise in each.

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“…I also excluded papers reporting results from captive environments or papers based on modelling exercises solely; the inclusion of such papers (e.g. Pavlov et al 2007) and other unpublished research (e.g. Hanson 2001) would have increased the number of papers addressing device influences on animals.…”

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Trends in tagging of marine mammals: a review of marine mammal biologging studies

McIntyre¹

2014

African Journal of Marine Science

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science of biologging is somewhat older and is recognised to have started as early as the 1940s, when depth gauges were used on whales and seals (Scholander 1940). After Scholander, the earliest biologging devices used on marine animals are generally recognised to be the maximum-depth recorder (DeVries and Wohlschlag 1964) and time-depth recorders (Kooyman 1965), all of which were deployed on Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddellii (Evans et al. 2013).Technological advances are increasingly allowing for the miniaturisation of devices, as well as the incorporation of more sophisticated sensors into animal-borne instruments. For example, the use of fast-loc GPS technology (e.g. Dragon et al. 2012a), accelerometers (Naito et al. 2010 and camera systems (e.g. Naito et al. 2013) is allowing more detailed and fine-scale assessments of marine animal movements and behaviour. Furthermore, the addition of various sensors to biologging instruments is contributing increasingly to our understanding of ocean physical properties (Fedak 2013) and how marine mammals adjust their behaviour in relation to them (e.g. McIntyre et al. 2011a;Jaud et al. 2012;Bestley et al. 2013). Although the technological advances are clear, it is of interest to know how these technologies are applied in scientific studies and what specific questions are being addressed.Biologging devices are currently used in scientific studies of numerous taxa, including terrestrial mammals (e.g. Hetem et al. 2012;McFarland et al. 2013), reptiles (e.g. Dubois et al. 2009;Watanabe et al. 2013), birds (e.g. Dean et al. 2013;Phipps et al. 2013), fish (e.g. Bonfil et al. 2005Yasuda et al. 2013) and even invertebrates (e.g. Stewart et al. 2012;Watts et al. 2012). Given the obvious difficulties in observing animals at sea directly, the use of biologging technologies is ideally suited for studies involving marine animals, particularly semi-aquatic species that haul out on land, thereby providing opportunities for the deployment of instruments. Marine biologists (and marine mammalogists in particular) are increasingly making use of biologging technology. This is exemplified by the study species reported in the titles and abstracts of presentations (n  Trends in tagging of marine mammals: a review of marine mammal biologging studies T McIntyre Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa e-mail: tmcintyre@zoology.up.ac.zaThe number of scientific papers resulting from biologging instruments deployed on marine mammals is increasing as improved technologies result in smaller devices and improved sensor-, storage-and transmission capabilities. I undertook a comprehensive review of papers resulting from biologging deployments on free-ranging marine mammals between 1965 and 2013 (n = 620) to summarise where (e.g. on which species, as well as in which geographic areas) deployment efforts were focused, the impacts of the resulting papers, and where there are shortcomings in the literature. Species-, sex-and age-class...

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A new approach to tag design in dolphin telemetry: Computer simulations to minimise deleterious effects

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

Inferring vertical and horizontal movements of juvenile marine turtles from time-depth recorders

Inferring vertical and horizontal movements of juvenile marine turtles from time-depth recorders

Studying the behaviour and sensory ecology of marine mammals using acoustic recording tags: a review

Trends in tagging of marine mammals: a review of marine mammal biologging studies

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