Metido – Siguiendo Ballenas

White circle indicates last position received.

Metido’s transmitter stopped sending data after 5 and a half months, when he was exploring an area of the continental shelf north of Staten Island.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido continues in an area north of the Strait of Le Maire and Staten Island. This juvenile has been exploring the zone for a month.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

For more than 15 days Metido has been exploring and feeding in a small section of the continental shelf north of the Strait of Le Maire.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido has continued exploring and feeding in the same area of the continental shelf east of Tierra del Fuego since the beginning of February.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido continues feeding in the same area of the continental shelf between Tierra del Fuego and the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands. “69”, another solitary individual, is close to this juvenile whale.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido has spent the last 5 days in an area where he found food after traveling southwards following a Z pattern. He is now only 70 kilometer south from “69”, the other solitary whale who is still on the continental shelf.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido is now 100 kilometers from Puerto San Julian. This juvenile whale, whose transmitter was deployed on September 23, has traveled northwest, away from his former position near Tierra del Fuego.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

After spending more than 3 weeks above the continental shelf within an area between the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands and the South American continent, Metido has found another rich feeding area a bit south of his previous location.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido remains in a region between the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands and the South American continent. Except for Fiesta, all the solitary whales have remained on the Argentine continental shelf.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido is the southernmost whale we are tracking. This past week he traveled eastwards, arriving in an area about 100 kilometers from the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands, where he remained feeding for a few days. He then returned west over his previous route, always on the continental shelf.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

After swimming closer to the coast of Santa Cruz, Metido began swimming over the continental shelf in a southward direction. This whale is now at the latitude of the Strait of Magellan, 200 kilometers from Cabo Vírgenes.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido’s traveling companion, “69”, took off swimming towards the northeast. Metido, however, decided to swim farther south, to an area in the middle of the continental shelf at the same latitude as the city of San Julian, in Santa Cruz province.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido and “69” seem to synchronize their travels. This week both swam northwards until they reached their new positions south of the Gulf of San Jorge. At present they are less than 100 kilometers from each other, in an area previously explored by both.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido has been in the same small area off the coast of the province of Santa Cruz for 40 days. In the last few days he swam a bit farther south, where it seems he once more found food.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Leaving his last position, Metido traveled eastwards and then turned north. He is now 200 kilometers northeast of “69”, Fiesta and El Gris.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido remains in the same area of the continental shelf he was in a week ago, 160 kilometers east of Puerto Deseado.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

For the last 15 days this juvenile has remained in a very small area of 4,000 square kilometers. This sector of the ocean along the Argentine coast and the continental shelf seems to be very important to the whale population that comes to the Valdes Peninsula.

The colored dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last registered position is indicated by a red dot bordered in white.

Metido, like El Gris, Fiesta, and “69”, continues traveling from north to south in a 100 kilometer wide band in front of Puerto Deseado. The permanece of these four whales in the area seems to indicate an abundant concentration of food in this sector of the continental shelf.

The largest dot represents the last registered position in this period. The accompanying number is the identification code of the satellite transmitter attached to this individual.

After having traveled straight south, Metido changed course a week ago and began swimming north to the same area where El Gris, “69” and Fiesta are at present. Their positions indicate that these whales are separated from each other by a distance of less than 30 kilometers. This zone of the continental shelf is clearly important for the Patagonian right whales.

The largest dot represents the last registered position in this period. The accompanying number is the identification code of the satellite transmitter attached to this individual.

Satellite tracking of this young whale shows his permanece in, then exit from Golfo Nuevo. His trajectory towards the south is very close to the coast down to the zone of Cabo Dos Bahías. From there, in front of the Gulf of San Jorge, Metido turns east. He is now 150 kilometers from Puerto Deseado.

The color of the dots follow a time sequence where the green dots represent the first locations in this period and the red dots the most recent locations, progressing through yellow and orange. The last position, indicated by a red dot with a white border, shows the geographic coordinates and time of reception of the transmission.