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The Dominica Sperm Whale Project

@DomWhale

Tweets from the field: tracking families of sperm whales since 2005.
Dominica, West Indies thespermwhaleproject.org Joined January 2011
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The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale
Working with @DOMFisheries and @DominicaStateCo early on to create experiential learning opportunities on the water through our research has grown dramatically into the amazing @ProjectCETI Fellowships in collaboration with @InsideNatGeo!

Meet the first team of Fellows!
Project CETI @ProjectCETI Nov 29, 2022
✨Please meet Whitney, Omari and Khade, the 2022/2023 CETI Fellows!✨ CETI's Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship is a community-based 10-month, multi-module training program for the next generation of conservation leaders in Dominica.
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How huge are sperm whales?

Now we know thanks to work by @mglarou and team!
Maria Glarou @mglarou Nov 9, 2022
How to weigh a sperm whale without a scale? Check out our latest #openaccess article published in #MarineMammalScience:
➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @marinemammalogy

Many thanks to @FChristiansen83 & our collaborators at @DomWhale, Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, @ATursiops 👏🏻
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Sperm whale researchers from across the #Pacific team up to understand how cultural clans of whales broadcast their identity!

We’ll done @taylorahersh and team!
Taylor Hersh @taylorahersh Sep 8, 2022
1/10) Very happy to announce that our new paper is out in @PNASNews! We show evidence that sperm whale clans in the Pacific Ocean use identity codas as symbolic markers of vocal clan identity. Read the paper at: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
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Great new science from Dr. @_fvachon and her team about the sperm whale clans in the Eastern #Caribbean
Royal Society Publishing Verified account @RSocPublishing Aug 31, 2022
Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations: ow.ly/mupS50Kl3GO @_fvachon @taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero #RSOS #ecology
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