UNB researchers helped filmmakers to get a close scene of endangered whale
Two universities of New Breanswick Researchers are preparing another cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence this week to study the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale.
And time is just with the release of an Apple TV+ documentary series that features six of the six most endangered animals in the world.
Kim Davis, an associate professor in biological science, had a hand in the episode on the right whale.
Davis said, “We produced this last year, which I was the biggest ever.”
the wild Ones Malayan Tigers, Gobi Beer, Javan Rhinos, Caucasian leopards, Western Terai Gorilla and North Atlantic are dedicated episodes dedicated to the right whale.
Series, From the UK-based production company, from children films, was released on 11 July.
Davis runs a research program on the right whale that resides in New Breanswick water in spring, summer and fall.
Currently, only 350 North Atlantic Right Whale is left, and even less reproductive women, Davis said, and is well down to the target for population recovery.
Davis stated that the team goes out every year to perform various research projects, and recently, began using new technology to tag whale using drones.
The drones will fly over a whale and leave the tag, which will be suction for the whale, he said. The tag has cameras on them, which allow for underwater footage.
Of film crew the wild Ones Participated in the last summer cruise, filmed from his boat and then joined the researchers on Davis’s boat while tagging to catch the underwater perspective.
“Any underwater footage that you see from Whale’s point of view in the documentary will contribute to our research program,” he said.
Researchers at the University of New Breanswick and Dalhousie University laid hands in a new Apple TV+ documentary series that delays the world’s most endangered animals. Researchers helped filmmakers to get a closeup look on the North Atlantic Wright Whale.
Unb, Dalhousie University and Ocean Alliance Researchers were in charge of installing cameras on whales for underwater footage. Davis said the Canadian Whale Institute and Fisheries and Ocean Canada also played a role in production.
Jillian Carter, an UNB undergraduate student, was riding in the last summer, who was doing his research on what the right whales are eating.
Carter said, “To protect the right whale, we need to know where they are going and where they are usually connected to what they are eating in summer.”
He said that the right whales eat small marine crustaceans called Copopods, which are smaller than a grain of rice.
While Carter was not directly involved with tagging research or filmmaking, he said that experience was real.
“It has been a lifelong dream of me to work on boats in this way, and then to ride on an Apple TV+ film crew, it likes, ‘Wow. I can’t believe that it’s real life.”
Davis stated that underwater footage was helpful for the TV crew, but it is also important for scientists that it is important to answer the fundamental questions about this, using whales and uses its environment.
And he said that researchers still have questions as to how the right whales get entangled in the underwater gear under water.
While they have yet to inspect a underwater entangle with a tagged whale, he said, if they keep on tagging, they can eventually see it and learn more about how to get entangled.
Although Davis has worked with another film crew in the past on the right whale documentaries, an episode has decided a whale on a streaming service with the international access of Apple TV+, probably a positive impact, he said.
The series can educate the audience who did not have access to previous films about the right whale, he said ..
