{"id":112,"date":"2012-04-05T07:12:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T07:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/?p=112"},"modified":"2012-04-05T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T07:13:53","slug":"day-5-jour-4-04-april-2012-hiva-oa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/2012\/04\/05\/day-5-jour-4-04-april-2012-hiva-oa\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 (Jour 5) 04 April 2012 Hiva Oa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather and ocean conditions were very favorable today. We traveled southeast to Mohotani, surveying the east coast first, and were rewarded with a group of around 300 melon-headed whales. We collected biopsies, photo IDs and underwater video for the project. We observed several calves spyhopping, and many animals consistently and closely approached our boat. Interestingly, in the beginning of the encounter we first observed spinner dolphins traveling with our boat. However, as the melon-headed whales approached, the spinner dolphins departed.\u00a0 After traveling around the southern tip of the island we encountered a small group of spotted dolphins. We collected biopsies and photo IDs for this encounter as well as two more groups of dolphins. One, a mixed aggregation of spinner and spotted dolphins, we observed on the east coast of Tahuata. The other was a group of spinner dolphins we observed nearer to Hiva Oa on our return. Our summary thus far includes photo IDs and biopsies from spinner dolphins and spotted dolphins from three islands, melon-headed whales and pilot whales from one island, and photo IDs of common bottlenose dolphins from one island.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Les conditions m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques et l\u2019\u00e9tat de la mer nous ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s favorables aujourd\u2019hui. Nous en avons donc profit\u00e9 pour effectuer une travers\u00e9e vers la petite \u00eele de Mohotani, situ\u00e9e au Sud-Est de Hiva Oa. Nous n\u2019avons rien trouv\u00e9 au large, mais par contre nous avons eu la chance de tomber sur un groupe d\u2019environ 300 p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales (aussi appel\u00e9s dauphins d\u2019Electre), se trouvant sur la c\u00f4t\u00e9 Est de l\u2019\u00eele, \u00e0 peine \u00e0 200m du bord. Un groupe de dauphins \u00e0 long bec a \u00e9t\u00e9 observ\u00e9 dans un premier temps mais ces derniers ont rapidement laiss\u00e9 la place \u00e0 la horde de p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales. Sur ces derniers, nous avons collect\u00e9 des biopsies et de nombreuses photos (plus de 1000\u00a0!), ainsi que des vid\u00e9os sous marines. Plusieurs petits ont \u00e9t\u00e9 observ\u00e9s, certains sortant leur t\u00eate de l\u2019eau \u00e0 la vertical (\u00ab\u00a0spyhopping\u00a0\u00bb), et les animaux se sont approch\u00e9s tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s du bateau pendant tout la rencontre. Nous avons ensuite couvert la pointe Sud de l\u2019\u00eele, o\u00f9 nous avons trouv\u00e9 un petit groupe de dauphins tachet\u00e9s, l\u2019occasion de collecter une nouvelle biopsie ainsi que quelques photos. Apr\u00e8s avoir effectu\u00e9 la travers\u00e9e vers Tahuata, c\u2019est un groupe mix de dauphins \u00e0 long bec et dauphins tachet\u00e9s qui nous attendait. Enfin, sur le chemin du retour, nous sommes tomb\u00e9s sur un petit groupe de dauphin \u00e0 long bec (quatre individus). Pour l\u2019heure, nous avons pu collecter des biopsies et photos de dauphins tachet\u00e9s et dauphins \u00e0 long bec autour de trois \u00eeles diff\u00e9rentes, de p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales et de globic\u00e9phales autour d\u2019une \u00eele, ainsi que des photos (mais pas de biopsie) de grands dauphins communs \u00e0 Tahuata.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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