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Bronx, the Cape Cod seal, and his spatial habits: a 5-month checkup

Our tagged gray seal—Bronx—has been busy in the inshore and offshore waters around Cape Cod these past six months as he continues to carry our GPS tag that pings back location, dive, behavior, and oceanographic data.  Over the 155 days (just over 5 months and counting) of successful relocation and data transmission, the mobile-enabled GPS…
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Latest tracks: Bronx

These are the latest tracks from Bronx, a juvenile grey seals fitted with a GSM tag and released from West Dennis Beach, Cape Cod. See this post about his release. [divider] [xmlgm {http://www.duke.edu/~dwj2/hg34.kml} maxlat=42.5;minlat=41.4;maxlon=-69.76;minlon=-70.5;maptype=G_SATELLITE_MAP;gpxview=all;width=650;height=650;align=center] [divider] Tracking data for Bronx is brought to you by a joint effort amongst Duke University, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Provincetown…
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Bronx update – a bit more about grey seals off Cape Cod

We’ve been tracking Bronx – our Cape Cod iSeal – for about 37 days and we are starting to learn a little about this seals habits. This in turn, helps us understand a bit about his preferred habitats. Bronx is splitting time between foraging trips at two haulout locations (red circles on image below) –…
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The Cape Cod captures land 7 newly GPS tagged gray seals

Quite a week on the water in Chatham, MA on Cape Cod!  To list some of the accomplishments: the first live-captures (on our first attempt no less) of gray seals in the US; coordinated deployments of multiple GPS tags on adult US gray seals; a massive sampling effort to collect data for both field participants…
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iSeal checks in from Monomoy, Cape Cod

On September 15, 2012, a grey seal – named Bronx – was released from West Dennis Beach on Cape Cod with a tag on it’s back. After about 10 days cruising along the shores of Cape Cod, the seal hauled out between Chatham and Monomoy and delivered the first bundles of information about it’s movements…
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