Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Video courtesy of MMPA/ESA Research/Enhancement permit #21321/18786-03
PWF researchers use drone technology to track and study a pod of pygmy killer whales that stranded on a North Kihei beach in September of 2019. Read more in our upcoming blog at pacificwhale.org/blog
Jens Currie, Pacific Whale Foundation, Chief Scientist 7:21-7:37 “The data we’ve collected here, we hope to move forward with the University of Hawaiʻi and the Marine Mammal Research Program to collaboratively tackle some questions we can now answer using drone technology to determine the body condition of various populations and species.” Lars Bejder, UH Marine Mammal Research Program, Director 4:56-5:10 “This new approach opens up doors to quantify these changes in body condition, in response to not only human activity, but also larger climatic changes that the environment is posing towards these animals.”
Video courtesy of MMPA/ESA Research/Enhancement permit #21321/18786-03
PWF researchers use drone technology to track and study a pod of pygmy killer whales that stranded on a North Kihei beach in September of 2019. Read more in our upcoming blog at pacificwhale.org/blog
Jens Currie, Pacific Whale Foundation, Chief Scientist 7:21-7:37 “The data we’ve collected here, we hope to move forward with the University of Hawaiʻi and the Marine Mammal Research Program to collaboratively tackle some questions we can now answer using drone technology to determine the body condition of various populations and species.” Lars Bejder, UH Marine Mammal Research Program, Director 4:56-5:10 “This new approach opens up doors to quantify these changes in body condition, in response to not only human activity, but also larger climatic changes that the environment is posing towards these animals.”
