HUSAVIK, Sept 5 — Just off the northern coast of Iceland, scientists are collecting data from whales’ breath to find out if they get stressed by whale-watching boats, an industry that has boomed in recent years.
Attached to the flying device are two petri dishes — transparent cylindrical containers — that will collect water droplets from the whale’s spray.This time, the drone flies over the whale carefully, crossing through the spray coming from the whale’s blowhole... and mission accomplished. It returns to the sailboat, delivering its precious cargo to the researchers.
“We found that the minke whales were disturbed in their feeding, but it was only a short-term disturbance,” one of the authors of the study, Marianne Rasmussen, director of the University of Iceland Research Center in Husavik, told AFP.The method used by Whale Wise this summer has been used elsewhere by biologists but this was a first for researchers in Iceland.
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