Wildlife Computers

🐧Supporting Your Research in 2026: Important Updates from Wildlife Computers🐧 -

🐧Supporting Your Research in 2026: Important Updates from Wildlife Computers🐧

These turtles are on the move. Our tags are working great on these turtles.

Thanks to the great performances of the Wildlife Computers tags, we have been able to obtain a detailed and comprhensive view of trcaked turtles' movements and behaviour. So far, over 37,000 localisations have been obtained from the 13 instrumented turtles, corresponding to an average of 12.5 localisations/day per turtle (range: 2.2-25.7 loc/day). The chart shows the reconstructed routes of 4 such turtles, that were tracked for several months as they roamed over large offshore areas in the central Mediterranean

What a pretty piece of jewelry!! Can't wait to see the data.

We need your help! A curious local first grade class has been learning about Puget Sound—and they’ve come up with some awesome (and surprisingly tough!) questions. We’d love for our scientific community to help us answer them.

If you’d like to participate, please share your name and area of expertise, then weigh in on one or more of these questions:

🦀 Puget Sound & Its Creatures

What animals are especially important to Puget Sound?
What animals live in really deep water?
Just how deep can a fish go?

🐳 Life as a Scientist

How do you help sea animals?
Have you ever been scared by an animal in your work?

🐙 Ocean Wonders

What’s the most interesting thing about orcas?
How do octopus get scared?
How old can a sea turtle get?

♻️ Kids Making a Difference
How can kids help keep Puget Sound—and waters everywhere—clean?

Your answers will help inspire the next generation of scientists, explorers, and ocean stewards. 💙Drop your responses below—or tag someone who should join in!

This satellite tag was deployed on a 109” (276.86 cm) Atlantic bluefin tuna in Canada in September, 2024. The tag was programmed for a 12-month duration, but popped off a little early around 11 months. This particular bluefin made quite the impression! This fish crossed the entire Atlantic in just under 2 months, then entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar in May 2025! We also observed that this fish stuck around the Med for the month of June, and then left in July to make its journey back to the Northwest Atlantic! It is pretty amazing that Atlantic bluefin tuna can make these long journeys across the Atlantic in such a short amount of time! What an amazing opportunity we have to track these outstanding fish!

This is why we make tags. Our main mission is to promote the sustainable use of our global environment by designing and delivering innovative technologies that empower data driven decisions. This work is revolutionizing how we observe long‑lived species that are otherwise incredibly difficult to study—providing the insights needed to support sustainable fisheries and conservation. Great work, you guys!!

That looks like perfect placement! Can't wait to see the data.