{"id":220,"date":"2012-04-18T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/?p=220"},"modified":"2012-05-01T04:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:50:12","slug":"day-18-jour-18-17-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/2012\/04\/18\/day-18-jour-18-17-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 18 (Jour 18) 17 April 2012 Nuku Hiva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was our first day working at Nuku Hiva. This island is bigger than the other islands we surveyed (it is the second largest island in French Polynesia behind Tahiti). Our captain, Pipapo, was very familiar with where to look for the melon-headed whales, so with his expertise we were able to go straight to work on a large group of melon-headed whales (about 300) who were resting near shore on the SE corner of the island. This species has been one of the most cooperative of any species with which we have worked, with individuals coming near the boat on a consistent basis, making our work easier. However, today, there were 4 or 5 individuals that were displacing others that were trying to bow ride on the boat. This made collecting biopsy samples more difficult since we were trying to be careful to not resample animals we had already sampled. After leaving the melon-headed whales, we had four encounters with spinner dolphins. Two encounters with only a few individuals near shore, and two encounters with about 20 individuals about 400 meters further offshore. We collected biopsy samples and photo IDs from several dolphins.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aujourd\u2019hui \u00e9tait notre premier jour de navigation autour de Nuku Hiva. Cette \u00eele est plus grande que celles sur lesquelles nous avons travaill\u00e9 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent (c\u2019est la deuxi\u00e8me plus grande \u00eele de Polyn\u00e9sie derri\u00e8re Tahiti). Notre capitaine, Pipapo, savait exactement o\u00f9 trouver les p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales et nous y a mener tout droit. C\u2019est un groupe d\u2019environ 300 individus que nous avons rencontr\u00e9 en train de se reposer tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s des falaises, \u00e0 la pointe Sud-Est de l\u2019\u00eele. Les p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales sont de loin les dauphins les plus coop\u00e9ratifs avec lesquels nous ayons travaill\u00e9 ici, venant syst\u00e9matiquement tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s du bateau et facilitant donc notre collecte de donn\u00e9es. Cependant, nous avons remarqu\u00e9 que 4 \u00e0 5 individus monopolisent l\u2019\u00e9trave du bateau et n\u2019h\u00e9sites pas \u00e0 repousser leur comparses lorsque ces derniers cherchent \u00e0 approcher. Ceci a un peu compliqu\u00e9 le pr\u00e9l\u00e8vement de biopsies car nous essayons dans le mesure du possible de ne pas r\u00e9-\u00e9chantillonner le m\u00eame individu au cours du m\u00eame rencontre. Apr\u00e8s avoir quitt\u00e9 les p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales, nous avons encore trouv\u00e9 quatre groupes de dauphins \u00e0 long bec. Deux de ces groupes ne comprenaient que quelques individus pr\u00e8s de la c\u00f4te, tandis que les deux autres se constituaient d\u2019environ 20 dauphins situ\u00e9s \u00e0 environ 400m du rivage. Nous avons collect\u00e9 des biopsies et pris des photos de plusieurs individus. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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