“How do I do that in R?”: Ethographer What’s an accelerometer? Next up in our series of tutorials is a revisiting of some ancient work that I conducted while earning a masters degree at the University of Cape Town. In this project I compared patterns of shark swimming behaviour that Read more…
Monitoring the distribution of kelp We love kelp here at Cape RADD, if you haven’t gotten that by now then I don’t know what you’re reading. I try to use the word kelp in a sentence at least once a day and I am pretty sure I’ve seen Jessie feed Read more…
Two Oceans We spend a lot of time in our Citizen Science day and biodiversity lectures speaking about oceanography and the Agulhas and Benguela currents. It is largely because of these two ocean currents that Cape Town sees such a rich diversity of marine and terrestrial life. There really aren’t Read more…
Great white sharks are one of the oceans most notorious shark species, a top apex predator with one of the most remarkable and eye-catching predatory hunting behaviors documented in the natural world, the Polaris breach. White sharks have often split the publics opinions, filling some people with inquisitive questions Read more…