June 8---Is Yaana Vacationing?

Yaana continues her movements around the sandbanks off the mouth of the bay. This is really interesting to me, because if this continues, it would be somewhat reminiscent of the seasonal patterns we see in the Sarasota Bay bottlenose dolphins. They use the passes and coastal waters in Florida to a greater extent in winter. Too early to tell if the pattern will hold, but could be a parallel.

June 7, 2007

Three months post-tagging, Yaana remains within the same general area. She has returned to the mouth of the bay.

June 6, 2007

Yaana remains outside the mouth of the bay.

June 5, 2007

Yaana is moving offshore of the mouth of the bay.

June 4---Cold Water = No Dolphin Sightings

Yaana has moved back toward the mouth of the bay.

Dr. Bordino has been trying to get a visual on the tagged dolphins in the water...but the effort illustrates how tough it is to do this research. The weather was bad---actually below freezing yesterday---so the crew was unable to work. They will return for another try later in June.

June 3 - Still Looking

Pablo and team will spend today searching for tagged dolphins, and then leave San Blas until about 17 June. Pablo is preparing an abstract for the Society for Marine Mammalogy biennial meeting in December in Cape Town, summarizing our initial findings from Samborombon and San Blas.