The footage of humpback whales exfoliating their skin with sand offer new insight into these animals' complex lifestyles deep beneath the ocean
In 2019, Meynecke and his colleagues started attaching tracking tags called
The tags can capture a humpback's fine-scale movements underwater, helping Meynecke and other researchers build a more accurate model of how the humpbacks backtrack, detour, and meander on their migrations. Through that, they can understand more about what habitats they frequent, and how much energy they spend along the way.A humpback with the CATS cam digital tracker attached. The tags can be set to detach after a few hours of collecting data, and can then be retrieved.
"I remember sitting there with my colleagues and we were laughing about it," says Meynecke,"Like, what? What are the whales doing? Like, why are they rolling on the sand?"
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