Project leader Nobuo Kokubun said such research helps scientists trace the animals’ behavioral patterns and ecology.
“During the summer, we can go to Antarctica on icebreakers to conduct actual research activities, so that we can collect data there. But during the winter, such things cannot be done in so many places,” Kokubun said during an interview with Reuters on Friday.
The data successfully gathered from seven seals showed one of them had traveled as far as 633km from the coast of Japan’s Showa Station in Antarctica, while another had descended to a depth of 700m .
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