Fly with care: avoiding disturbance when using drones to study cetaceans
Drones have been widely used in the last decade for a host of wildlife studies. They’ve been particularly helpful to advance our understanding of whales, dolphins, and porpoises, because cetaceans are notoriously difficult to observe in their natural environment. But can drones disturb the animals that we strive to understand? Our study “Fly with care”, published in Marine Mammal Science…
https://www.raincoast.org/2023/01/fly-with-care-avoiding-disturbance-when-using-drones-to-study-cetaceans/