Since Receiving Satellite Tags, Some Sharks Have Become Stars of Social Media 31
Lucas123 writes: A research project that tags the world's most dangerous sharks with four different tracking devices and then offers all the data to the public has taken off, garnering hundreds of thousands of users; one shark even has more then 80,000 followers on Twitter. OCEARCH, a non-profit shark tracking project, has tagged about 130 sharks, from great whites and tigers to hammerheads and makos, and open sourced the data in the hope that it will create citizen scientists who will follow the animals and care about what happens to them. To further personify the apex predators, the researchers at OCEARCH have also given the sharks names such as Katharine and Mary Lee, two sharks that are more than 14 feet long and weight more than a ton. OCEARCH's shark tracker has garnered 10 times the traffic it had last year, and it's expected to grow 20 times more by the end of this year. Along with data from satellite, acoustic and accelerometer tags, the project expects to begin using big data analytics to offer more granular data about the animals and their lives to scientists and the public at large.
Probably more valuable than ... (Score:4, Informative)
... following Kim Kardashian.
shark privacy protection (Score:2)
Holy Hell (Score:1)
Those are some long, shitty, fucked up sentences, Batman. And why would you start out the summary with the pronoun ("a research project") instead of the proper noun and definition ("OCEARCH, a non-profit shark tracking project")? And then there are the fucking errors ("a online and mobile apps"), which can't be blamed on having shitty style.
Lrn 2 Engrish plox?
Shark social media (Score:2)
Just ate a seal. ROOFLOL.
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Oho, someone forgot to tick the AC checkbox...
On the Internet of Beings, (Score:1)
Warhol's Entitlement isn't just for people anymore.
Shark Attack Live! (Score:2)
And now, live on SharkCam 3 is a swimmer being eaten!
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Sharks vs the social media rules (Score:2)
As sharks move onto social media, what about the Facebook requirement for use of real names? Dating sites will require that they be honest about reporting weight in their profiles, with any documented bad habits ("Eats surfers").
Not Dangerous (Score:3)
The worrying thing to me is that because Chinese people like shark's fin soup, humanity is going to kill every shark in the oceans, probably in my life time, making the oceans shark free for the first time in 400 million years.
We ought to be worried.
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You might not have a problem with it, but for me personally, I'm not going to go play on the sharks dinner table, at dinner time.
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Do not underestimate the ability for certain cultures to cause species endangerment through some idea that it is fashionable or somehow medicinal. That's why rhinos and elephants have been facing critical existence failure.
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Come on (Score:1)
Enough stories about the Republican candidates already.
Are any following people named Brody? (Score:1)
We need to put trackers on anyone named Brody and see if any sharks are following them around, because, y'know, that family has terrible luck with sharks.