This is n’t the sort of kinfolk snap we ’re used to seeing — but it is still deucedly cunning . A droning aviate by conservationists airless to Vancouver Island captured this image of a family of orcas as they swam through the sea together .
The drone was set into the air by John Durban from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to find and identify families or orcas . But the poke ’s on - instrument panel tv camera are n’t just used to capture double for sloppiness : the pictures will actually be used to supervise the health of orcas , determining how their body mass changes over time . The results could also aid environmentalist ferment out how big an effect the orcas ’ diet — base largely on Chinook salmon — is stimulate on local Pisces population .
luckily , it ’s a rather more pleasant drone’s - eye - view of orcas thanfootage captured above SeaWorld earlier this year .
[ Journal of Unmanned Vehicle SystemsviaNew Scientist ]
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