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Passive acoustic monitoring reveals new insights on foraging activity of Hector's dolphins

  • April 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Passive acoustic monitoring reveals new insights on foraging activity of Hector's dolphins
Monitoring the sounds of an endangered dolphin species may provide clues to ensuring their survival, a new University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study shows. Published in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, the research is the first to use acoustic monitoring to study Hector's dolphins in Porpoise Bay, Southland, an important habitat for the species.

Originally published at Phys.org

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