Dolphin mortality results from both natural and anthropogenic causes. Natural causes include old age, failure to thrive as a calf, intra-specific agonistic interactions, predation, stingray wounds, disease, storms and biotoxins from harmful algal blooms such as red tides. Threats of human origin include entanglement in nets, entanglement in or ingestion of fishing gear, pollution, boat …
The best thing you can do on a beautiful autumn day is to go hiking. There’s something magical about forests in the autumn.
To research dolphin behaviour we first have to ask the question: what is the problem the behavior has evolved to solve? The following is a list of some of the main problems: foraging: how to find, select, and process prey; predator avoidance or defense: the flip side of foraging from the prey’s point of view; …
Iceland is mesmerizing, for the eye and for the mind. I will let the photos do most of the talking and just add some captions as we go through the days. Things we did (2 months) before the trip: planned the whole route according to all the sites we wanted to see, made accommodation reservations …
Definition in marine biology: the method of study of marine mammals using photographs to identify individuals. We will particularly concentrate on dolphins and how we rely on the presence of unique natural features, specifically on the dorsal fin (the size and location of notches and cuts), to identify individual animals. Natural markings data can be …
First of all, dolphins do sleep, but it’s not the type of sleep land mammals have. Dolphins are conscious breathers, which means they have to think about when to go up to the surface and take a breath. Since they don’t breathe autonomously and have to plan every single breath, they undergo a form of …
Monstera plants grow pretty much all over the world where it’s warm and humid enough, though native to tropical forests of Mexico and Panama. When we visited Madeira, we bought the Monstera deliciosa fruit on the market as it’s an interesting fruit and we wanted to try it. It wasn’t ripe yet, so we took …
Dolphins keep a complex social network which includes a few close associates (such as mothers and calves or pair-bonded individuals) and some more casual relationships within a larger group. Dolphins hunt together for food, pods coordinate their movements to herd prey. They have a very acute sense of hearing which they use to communicate with …
There is so much work to be done in this world. And it’s always the right time to start – with the thing that motivates us the most, where we can and want to put our effort in. I participated as a volunteer at a marine mammal society for cetacean conservation and research for a …
Have you ever wondered why trees are the way they are? Why do they form forests? Could they grow on their own, or do they prefer company? In the (below) named book we find almost all the answers and what’s more, they are delivered in a very interesting and humorous style. All the facts are collected …
