{"id":3804,"date":"2021-02-24T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delphis.cetacei.org\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2023-03-05T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T10:47:11","slug":"regno-di-nettuno-salvatore-the-sperm-whale-faithful-to-ischia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/regno-di-nettuno-salvatore-the-sperm-whale-faithful-to-ischia\/","title":{"rendered":"Regno di Nettuno, Salvatore the sperm whale faithful to Ischia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-7cfc587\" data-block-id=\"7cfc587\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\"><strong><em>Spotted last Saturday by the Oceanomare Delphis team during the winter campaign supported by the Marine Protected Area: the sperm whale had already been photographed in 2009 and 2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-405486f\" data-block-id=\"405486f\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">The sperm whale named Salvatore likes the Marine Protected Area Regno di Nettuno. Re-sighted last Saturday between Ischia and Ventotene, in the underwater canyon of Punta Imperatore, the cetacean had already been photographed in May 2009 and \u201crecaptured\u201d ten years later, in July 2019.<br>Positive news for the biodiversity of the Campania sea and, in particular, for the pelagic area of MPA, the crossroads of seven distinct species of cetaceans.<br><br>The encounter has been recorded by the researchers of Oceanomare Delphis within the cetacean winter monitoring campaign supported by the MPA.<br>\u201cThe sighting, on the bathymetric of 1000 meters south-west of the island \u2013 explains the cetologist Barbara Mussi, president of Oceanomare Delphis \u2013 represents the first encounter with this animal in the winter months and confirms its fidelity to the waters of Ischia\u201d. The champion of site-fidelity remains the sperm whale Brunone, with 16 years of encounters in the waters of Ischia.<br>We are proud to protect and report a similar heritage. \u2013 explains the director of the MPA Regno di Nettuno, Antonino Miccio \u2013 Starting from Ischia, you can witness extraordinary spectacles of nature, which we must protect with competence and passion, and that can help us to promote increasingly sustainable tourism\u201d.<br><br>The monitoring trips will continue until April aboard Jean Gab, the historical cutter of the association dedicated to cetacean research. The research vessel is equipped with acoustic instrumentation built in CIBRA (Interdisciplinary Center of Bioacoustics and Environmental Research of the University of Pavia) labs. The CIBRA hydrophones can detect sperm whales at a distance of 15 kilometers.<br>In the first seven winter surveys, 21 acoustic detections have been recorded, 5 of sperm whales and 16 of dolphins, with 12 sightings, 8 of striped dolphins (<em>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/em>), 2 of sperm whales (<em>Physeter macrocephalus<\/em>), and 2 of turtles (<em>Caretta caretta<\/em>).<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avvistato sabato scorso dal team di Oceanomare Delphis nell\u2019ambito della campagna invernale sostenuta dall\u2019area marina protetta: era gi\u00e0 stato fotografato nel 2009 e nel 2019 Al capodoglio Salvatore piace l\u2019area marina protetta Regno di Nettuno. Riavvistato sabato scorso tra Ischia e Ventotene, nel canyon sottomarino di Punta Imperatore, il cetaceo era gi\u00e0 stato fotografato nel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,13,9,10,12,8],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amp","tag-capodoglio","tag-cetaceans","tag-regnodinettuno","tag-spermwhale","tag-wintermonitoring"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}