WCS Study documents foraging behavior of dolphins that visit waters of the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary each year They click. They whistle. They love seafood. They are New York City’s nearshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that return to feed in local waters from spring to fall each year, and a team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is tracking them. The team deployed underwater listening devices at six locations off Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey, to detect where and when dolphins fed. Dolphins produce a series of rapid clicks called “foraging buzzes” which can reveal feeding activity. They found that feeding was generally highest in late summer into autumn, but it peaked at different months at different sites. Varia...
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