{"id":147,"date":"2012-04-12T03:11:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/?p=147"},"modified":"2012-04-13T08:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T08:17:44","slug":"day-11-day-11-10-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/2012\/04\/12\/day-11-day-11-10-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 (Jour 11) 10 April 2012 Ua Huka"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Our second day of surveys around Ua Huka began with strong winds and cross swells, and we were not too optimistic. However, after 3 encounters with spinner dolphins along the southern coast, we again found a group of melon-headed whales. The ocean conditions were not favorable, but the group was very cooperative, and we were able to collect photo ID, biopsies, and do an estimate of group size (around 50 individuals).\u00a0 During our offshore surveys we were rewarded with encounters of two more species, spotted dolphins and pilot whales. We collected photo IDs and biopsies from both species despite almost Beaufort five ocean conditions. This concludes our Ua Huka surveys. We travel on 11 April to Ua Pou, still pondering the whereabouts of the rough-toothed dolphins and common bottlenose dolphins\u2026<\/p>\n

Pour notre deuxi\u00e8me jour \u00e0 Ua Huka, les conditions m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques se sont encore un peu d\u00e9grad\u00e9es avec un vent renforc\u00e9 et surtout une houle crois\u00e9e rendant la collecte de donn\u00e9es compliqu\u00e9e. Nous n\u2019\u00e9tions donc pas tr\u00e8s optimistes ce matin. Cependant, apr\u00e8s avoir trouv\u00e9 trois groupes de dauphins \u00e0 long bec sur la c\u00f4t\u00e9 Sud, nous sommes encore tomb\u00e9s sur les p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales \u00e0 l\u2019Est de l\u2019\u00eele. Malgr\u00e9 la mer agit\u00e9e, les animaux ce sont montr\u00e9s coop\u00e9ratifs, facilitant la collecte de biopsies et photographies. Aujourd\u2019hui, le groupe \u00e9tait seulement d\u2019environ 50 individus. De nouveaux transects au large de la c\u00f4te Ouest se sont enfin av\u00e9r\u00e9s productifs puisque nous avons trouv\u00e9s deux autres esp\u00e8ces, des dauphins tachet\u00e9s et des globic\u00e9phales tropicaux. Des photos et des quelques biopsies ont \u00e9t\u00e9 collect\u00e9s mais dans des conditions de mer peu \u00e9videntes. Ceci conclue notre s\u00e9jour \u00e0 Ua Huka. Notre prochaine \u00e9tape sera Ua Pou o\u00f9 nous esp\u00e9rons bien trouver des dauphins \u00e0 bec \u00e9troits et des grands dauphins communs\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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