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My friend Iain Kerr of the Ocean Alliance is using drones (including the Phantom 2) for whale research.
They collect whale "blow", which is mostly mucus, and analyze it for the presence of stress hormones. But traditional methods for collecting this actually stress the whales. So now they're using drones to collect it, which involves landing on the water.
Here's a video:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl2ezapCGjw[/youtube]
They collect whale "blow", which is mostly mucus, and analyze it for the presence of stress hormones. But traditional methods for collecting this actually stress the whales. So now they're using drones to collect it, which involves landing on the water.
Here's a video:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl2ezapCGjw[/youtube]