Garrigue, Claire; Zerbini, Alexandre N; Geyer, Ygor; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Hanaoka, Wakao; Clapham, Phil (2010): (Table 1) Date, deployment location, tag longevity, and satellite data of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off New Caledonia [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810167, Supplement to: Garrigue, C et al. (2010): Movements of satellite-monitored humpback whales from New Caledonia. Journal of Mammalogy, 91(1), 109-115, https://doi.org/10.1644/09-MAMM-A-033R.1.
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Abstract:
Knowledge of the local and migratory movements of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from New Caledonia is very limited. To investigate this topic, we attached satellite-monitored tags to 12 whales off southern New Caledonia. Tag longevity ranged from 1 to 52 days (X = 22.5 days). Tagged whales generally moved to the south or southeast, with several spending time in a previously unknown seamount habitat named Antigonia before resuming movement, generally toward Norfolk Island or New Zealand. However, 1 female with a calf traveled the entire length of the western coast of New Caledonia (~450 km) and then west in the direction of the Chesterfield Reefs, a 19th century American (''Yankee'') whaling ground. None of the New Caledonia whales traveled to or toward eastern Australia, which is broadly consistent with the low rate of interchange observed from photo-identification comparisons between these 2 areas. The connections between New Caledonia and New Zealand, together with the relatively low numbers of whales seen in these places generally, support the idea that whales from these 2 areas constitute a single population that remains small and unrecovered.
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Coverage:
Median Latitude: -22.512092 * Median Longitude: 166.956392 * South-bound Latitude: -22.745000 * West-bound Longitude: 166.778300 * North-bound Latitude: -22.390000 * East-bound Longitude: 167.103300
Date/Time Start: 2007-08-20T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2007-09-11T00:00:00
Event(s):
Humpback_24638 * Latitude: -22.461700 * Longitude: 166.836700 * Date/Time: 2007-08-20T00:00:00 * Location: New Caledonia * Method/Device: Biology (BIO)
Comment:
DATE/TIME is the deployment date. Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | ||||
| 2 | Latitude of event | Latitude | ||||
| 3 | Longitude of event | Longitude | ||||
| 4 | Identification | ID | Garrigue, Claire | transmitter ID | ||
| 5 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Geocode | |||
| 6 | Duration, number of days | Duration | days | Garrigue, Claire | ARGOS Location-only transmitter SPOT 5 | tag longevity |
| 7 | Number | No | Garrigue, Claire | ARGOS Location-only transmitter SPOT 5 | of locations received | |
| 8 | Percentage | Perc | % | Garrigue, Claire | ARGOS Location-only transmitter SPOT 5 | of locations of quality 1,2 or 3 |
| 9 | Sex | Sex | Garrigue, Claire | |||
| 10 | Comment | Comment | Garrigue, Claire |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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