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Male sperm whale surfacing in the Kaikoura Canyon, off New Zealand.

Male sperm whale surfacing in the Kaikoura Canyon, off New Zealand.
Male sperm whale surfacing in the Kaikoura Canyon, off New Zealand.
Male sperm whale surfacing in the Kaikoura Canyon, off New Zealand.
Male sperm whale surfacing in the Kaikoura Canyon, off New Zealand.
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Morin, Maryann
Male sperm whale surfacing in the Kaikoura Canyon, off New Zealand.
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03/06/2013
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, vol. 50, no. 2, page 57:
A male sperm whale surfaces in the Kaikoura Canyon off the coast of New Zealand. WHOI biologists attached suction cup mounted digital acoustic tags to measure the whales' respiration sounds and glide rates, and they took thermal video of the animals' spouts and measured blowhold flow rates--all in an effort to learn how the bodies of these deep-diving animals function.
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A sperm whale surfaces above the deep Kaikoura Canyon off the East Coast of New Zealand. WHOI biologist Michael Moore, director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center, and graduate student Julie van der Hoop went on an expedition in March 2013 with colleagues from the University of Otago and elsewhere aboard the research vessel Alucia to study these deep-diving whales. The scientists used suction cup digital acoustic tags to measure whales' vocalizations, respiration and movement.
Photo by Maryann Morin, Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab at WHOI
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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