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Equipment to tag, track and collect biopsies from whales and dolphins : the ARTS, DFHorten and LKDart systems

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21/10/2022
Author
Kleivane, Lars
Kvadsheim, Petter H.
Bocconcelli, Alex
Øien, Nils
Miller, Patrick J.O.
Keywords
ARTS
Behavior
Biopsy
Cetaceans
DFHorten
Tagging
Telemetry
Tracking
GC Oceanography
QH301 Biology
Animal Science and Zoology
Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing
Instrumentation
3rd-DAS
MCC
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Abstract
Of all animals considered subjects for instrumentation for behavioral or physiological studies, cetaceans probably represent the greatest challenge to the engineer and biologist. The marine environment being harsh to electronics, evasive behavior during tagging approaches and the short time window available to attach instruments, all imply a need for innovative tagging solutions to facilitate better understanding of their life cycle, migration, physiology, behavior, health and genetics. Several animal-attached tag packages holding specific data loggers, e.g., time depth recorders, position, orientation, acoustic and video recorders for short to medium term studies, as well as tags developed for large scale migration telemetry studies are available as off-the-shelf devices, or in many cases as custom made sensor packages. Deployment of those instruments is often the limiting factor for data collection. The Aerial Remote Tag System (ARTS) is a flexible system which can easily be adapted to deploy different tag sensor packages and biopsy collection devices. This paper presents the history and design of the ARTS, and accessories developed for instrumentation and biopsy sampling of cetaceans, such as the recent developed ARTS–LKDart for biopsy sampling. Deployment of archival tags usually requires radio tracking of the instrumented animal, or at least tracking of the tag for recovery. Thus, we also here describe the automatic digital signal processing radio direction finder, the Direction Finder Horten (DFHorten unit).
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Kleivane , L , Kvadsheim , P H , Bocconcelli , A , Øien , N & Miller , P J O 2022 , ' Equipment to tag, track and collect biopsies from whales and dolphins : the ARTS, DFHorten and LKDart systems ' , Animal Biotelemetry , vol. 10 , 32 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-022-00303-0
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Animal Biotelemetry
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-022-00303-0
ISSN
2050-3385
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Funding Information: A special thanks to all the members of the 3S team, and to FFI, for support during the development of the ARTS–DTAG setup. Furthermore, special acknowledgement to ICR (Institute of Cetacean Research, Japan) for the development of the new ARTS carrier (ARTSTBC).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26453

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