A Permit First

                             

                                        In the post op recovery pen

An exclusive update from Dr. Andy Danychuk.

My project on Culebra hit a new high.

On Aug 2nd, my PhD student, Jake Brownscombe, hooked up, landed, and surgically implanted an acoustic transmitter in a permit - to our knowledge, the first permit implanted with a telemetry tag EVER! 

Since then we've been tracking the permit using an array of fixed receivers and already have amassed some cool data. Given that the transmitters have a battery life of over 2 yrs, we'll hopefully be able to learn quite a bit about their seasonal movement patterns and habitat use - information that is critical to their conservation and management. 

We'll be sure to post further updates as they come in, in the meantime we have two questions.

Is this a male or female?

Can we give it a name?

Comments

[benjuca]

Hey, amazing, where can I read more about this? IE tag used, where it was captured, who is doing the research, and so on

Cheers!

[crazed charlie]

Picador-one who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance. Great work Andy! Greetings from the CEI research angling team King

[Lawrence]

Olé!