Underwater Vehicule to Listen to Whales

Photo: WHOI

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in 2006 use passive acoustic recorders in an ocean glider, a type of Autonomous Underwater Vehicule (AUV) that looks like a large model airplane and can work at depths of more than 1,000 meters (about 3,300 feet).

Bowheads, aka. Greenland right whales, can live to 200

Photograph by Paul Nicklen/NGS

Here's the article. The data is mainly from eye tissue analysis.

Paradise: Monkey Mia, Australia

Dolphins by the beach (some feed humans)

Resort: http://www.monkeymia.com.au/site/awdep.asp?depnum=11526&menu=HOME

World Leading Research: http://monkeymiadolphins.org/

Video: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/953593/wild_dolphins_of_monkey_mia/