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dc.creatorBonfil,Ramón
dc.creatorO'Brien,Shannon
dc.date2015-03-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-03T13:27:43Z
dc.date.available2019-05-03T13:27:43Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-560X2015000100024
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/88075
dc.descriptionWe report on an adult female white shark tracked for 288 days and 7,100 km in the NE Pacific Ocean. The shark, tagged with a real-time satellite tag off Guadalupe Island, Mexico in October 2006, remained around the island for 3.5 months but left in early February 2007 for a ca. 3,900 km westward migration. Heading and swimming speed data showed that: a) the arc-like route followed by this shark during oceanic travel involved strongly directional rapid movement, and b) once the shark arrived to a specific (ca. 680 km wide) area located 790 km north-northeast of the Hawaiian Islands, it switched into a distinct roaming behavior. The shark remained in this roaming area from late March to at least late July 2007. We show that real-time satellite tags can provide unique and valuable information about the migratory behavior of white sharks.
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dc.publisherPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Ciencias del Mar
dc.relation10.3856/vol43-issue1-fulltext-24
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceLatin american journal of aquatic research v.43 n.1 2015
dc.subjectCarcharodon carcharias
dc.subjectwhite shark
dc.subjectreal-time satellite tags
dc.subjectoceanic migration
dc.subjectsustained swimming speed
dc.subjecttelemetry
dc.titleStrongly directional and differential swimming behavior of an adult female white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) from Guadalupe Island, Mexico


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