CIRCE NEWSLETTER

This Newsletter is entirely dedicated to the LIFE project "Conservation of Cetaceans and Turtles in Murcia and Andalusia". We present to you the harbour porpoise that we meet near Huelva, at the northern limit of the LIFE project research zone. You will find all the details of this project and its objectives that are important for the future of the Mediterranean Sea. In “behind the researches”, we will share some unforgettable moments of the January bottlenose dolphin biopsy mission.

This newsletter brings you information on the life of the common dolphin, problems of interactions between killer whales and tuna fishery in the Strait of Gibraltar and we are going on in exploring that hardly quiet world through acoustic analyses of cetacean’s vocalisations.

In this issue, you will learn more about the killer whale and its different behaviours in the world. Then, as promised, we will tell you all about the research done in May on sperm whales of the Strait of Gibraltar: how to detect their diving depth using hydrophones.

We are taking you onboard our research ship with the experience of a research assistant; we are describing the long finned pilot whale and finally you will discover all the information genetics can bring to us on Mediterranean fin whales and how to make a biopsy to get those information.

We chose to talk to you about Flipper; do you know its species? Discover it in page 2. Then we will tell you how we transform whales into indicators and what they teach us on the ocean depths.
A huge thanks to Mathilde Saboureau for all her help!

In this thrid Newsletter we will share with you collision problems in the Mediterranean Sea, you will learn more about sperm whale and you wil enter the hidden world of research with studies on fin whales stable isotopes.

For this second Newsletter, we have chosen to tell you about the most abundant cetacean of the Ligurian Sea: the striped dolphin a.k.a. Stenella coeruleoalba for the specialists and about photo-identification, what is it for, how to tackle it and what are the mistakes to avoid.

This first Newsletter is dedicated to the fin whale and the main aims of our research program.