Animal Tracking Bracelet - Whale Wayfare - Pink Sands

Made in partnership with FIU Marine Mammal Ecology Lab to protect whales and the ocean ecosystems they call home. Your purchase helps Fahlo further their mission alongisde community education and awareness efforts.

Meet your whale and learn their story. Reveal exclusive stats, photos, and updates along the way. Follow their path on an interactive tracking map. 

• Brand: Fahlo
• Stone: Pink Sands
• Sizing: Elastic, one size fits most
• Fahlo donates 10% of all profits to our nonprofit partners
• QR code provided to unlock interactive map - compatible on smart phones only.

How does tracking work?

• Tracked via SPOT (Smart Position and Temperature) tag
  
• This animal’s safety guarded with the Fahlo Protection Ping™
  

Every Fahlo tracking experience includes the Fahlo Protection Ping™. This indicates each animal’s unique path may be live, delayed, or historical based on required safety protocol in accordance with our nonprofit partners.

While the experience of following an animal’s journey remains the same for you, we work behind the scenes with our partners to ensure this experience is presented in a way that keeps the animals safe, one step or splash at a time.

Why are whales tracked?

Whales are tracked to understand their movements and their diving behavior since our tags record at which depth they feed or travel. Understanding where they go is great, but we also try to investigate why they do so. What drives their movements? It can be many factors, such as food, finding mates, or avoiding predators such as orcas. In addition, individual whales do not use the same areas or migratory corridors to feed and to reproduce. Each individual is unique, and they all have traits and personalities that change from one animal to the next!

How are whales tracked?

To track whales, we use satellite tags that we implant in the fat tissues. A small antenna transmits information to satellites that we can then access on our computers and even our cell phones! The tags are amazing pieces of technology. They can provide several locations each day and even record dive depths of individual whales, so we can understand what they do, how fast they travel, and how deep they dive, which are critical indications of their behavior (e.g. feeding, traveling).

Does tracking harm the whale sharks?

Tracking does not harm the whales. The tags we deploy are specifically designed to not cause pain or discomfort. We deploy tags in the dorsal section of the body, where the blubber layer is, protecting whales from the cold and maintaining the animal’s buoyancy. The whale has limited nerves that can cause pain to the animal. Whales are our passion, and before being scientists, we love them, and we always try to minimize our impact on their lives.

For more information, visit marineconservationecologylab.com.