Pics from Antarctic "Seal Cam"


	Pics from Antarctic "Seal Cam"

neochonetes

1-13-2008 7:24 PM

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environment, habitat, south pole, antartic, sea ice, antarctic toothfish, s orkney islands, s shetland islands, antarctic silverfish, randall davis

neochonetes says:

I have seen "turtle cam" before. Scientists view the habitat and the organism they are studying from the back of the Weddell Seal, so they can also study the habits of the seal without having to kill anything.
Why not do this to whales? Gosh, think how many cameras you could connect to a whale and have WHALE-A-VISION. It could be an excellent way to study their feeding habits and other patterns of behavior. Could record sounds also.
Can someone suggest this to prevent whale killing?

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1-13-2008 7:29 PM

neochonetes

I looked at the title and never saw that I had a typo, yes, Antarctice is incorrect....it should be Antarctic;(

1-13-2008 9:05 PM

papananook

You could suggest this to the Japanese whalers currewntly in the antarctic but i doubt they'll listen past their greed.
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2008/01/we_found_the_whaling_fleet.html

1-16-2008 11:31 AM

neochonetes

Yes, I am following that story; trying to run Greenpeace out of fuel....

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