#physetermacrocephalus

On Saturday the 30th, the 2022 Cachalote Consortium Workshop was held! An amazing group of 60 researchers from around the world were virtually present. During this workshop, many projects on sperm whales have been presented. Big names such as Hal Whitehead and Lisa Steiner were present too, introducing everyone to an important part of their work.

For me, it was a pleasure and an honour to attend this conference. It was my first one at Cachalote Consortium. And my first conference as a speaker. It was really satisfying to finally spread my work on sperm whales. And I found that my approach attracted other researchers, but also that others are trying to do the same in other parts of the world! It was a wonderful discovery.

With my work on data collected onboard the whale-watching vessels of Futurismo, I was able to estimate the sizes of sperm whales from their sound! A great tool for studies on populations of sperm whales. And acoustics methods are now more and more widespread in the conservation area. With sperm whales, many studies can be conducted. And many sounds can be used! For size estimation, echolocation and coda clicks are used. And below, is an example of how a series of echolocation clicks "looks like". Amazing, right?

I will explain also what all of this means in a dedicated post. I feel the need to spread my work also to people not directly linked with research, because is so amazing and so interesting...that most people would be fascinated!

I am so glad I attended the 2022 Cachalote Consortium Workshop and I feel grateful to all the people out there doing so much hard work on sperm whales.

To finish, two nice pictures of sperm whales. Aren't they so cute?