False Killer Whale. Data by Cascadia Research Collective, Robin Baird Scientist.

Thought you would be interested, the tag deployed on a false killer whale off the big island in October is still transmitting (as of yesterday), 164 days after tagging, the second-longest LIMPET tag deployment in Hawaii and the third-longest overall. The attached map shows movements over the last 10 days (with the tag transmitting over a 24 hour span out of every 5 days, so the map shows locations from March 27 and 28, April 1, 2, 6, and 7). The tagged individual, an adult female (HIPc155 in our catalog), was first documented off Oahu in 2002 and is part of “cluster 3”, a social group with a known high use area north of Oahu and Molokai based on previous satellite tag deployments. After leaving the big island HIPc155 has spent most of the last three months in the area from north of Oahu to north of Molokai.