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Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
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How windfarms affect seals?
6 minutes Posted Jul 27, 2014 at 11:00 pm.
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Seals are using windfarms and under sea pipelines as bases for their hunting and fishing exploits. St Andrews University scientist Deborah Russell and her Dutch colleagues glued GPS trackers to the fur of seals living along the coastlines of Germany and the UK near two active windfarms. The tags beamed back high-resolution data on the movements of the animals which the team were able to plot on maps. It then helped them understand how the seals and their prey are interacting with the windfarms and other new structures in their environment. She spoke to Chris Smith to explain... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists