1. Firstly state and explain the relevant facts about the study. First-ever used suction cup tags were deployed on Bryde's whales off the coast of Dapeng Bay, China. The whale was tagged for 6 hours in total at two separate occasions/ tag deployments. For the purpose of this review, I will focus on the dive and feeding durations, and anthropogenic disturbance. However, swim speed, depth were also recorded. The study group attempted to understand the influence and limits of anthropogenic pressures on the animals' behaviour. Especially, as an increase in anthropogenic whale-approaching vehicles (AWA) increases. The study attempts an observational and experimental approach to reveal the response of the subspecies to human activity. Which can aid future implementation of policy and management of conservation. Conservation management in the light of the increasing anthropogenic impacts on coastal habitats. Conservation challenges regarding this species, is possibly caused by the deficiency in fundamental information on occurrence and behaviours Another main aim, hence also compared with previous studies, have been to provide evidence of its health conditions and animal behaviour in order to help rescue the whale when and if needed. The study attracted a lot of attential from environmental protection agencies. - You should briefly outline what the researchers did and what they concluded, focusing on any morally important aspects of the study.
Attempting to minimise any impact to the natural behaviour of the species - make sure you state how many animals were involved, One animal was involved (later found dead and stranded at the site, NOT from the study, but through illegal fishing activities - putting importance on the need for consecration and policymaking) It was found dead on the 30/08/2021, 12 km away from the initial study-spot from presumed illegal fishing activities, the species is already very rare Highlights the importance of reducing interreference from human activities including AWA and Fishing - what risks or suffering they underwent, Stress, is the major controversy for this study, and possible exposure to vessel-noise which is known to cause damage to auditory nerves and peripheral hearing/ communication in whales Other stress from DNA retrieval may have caused some abnormalities in the study, but appropriate environmental DNA techniques were used by a team from the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, and minimal stress on the animal was confirmed and was only required to on top of morphological and behavioural characteristics, to confirm the subspecies. Behavioural comparisons will be helpful in this research as it can provide indirect evidence for health status, and changes in behavioural parameters have been recorded in previous studies indicating that these mammals may experience pain
- what approval was obtained beforehand, Approval was not discussed in the research article, however, but a lack of governance in the region I can assume would complicate the approval-seeking process. Researchers from NGO's and Research centres were involved. - what happened to them afterwards and so on. The species were observed in their natural habitat, with suction cups that are automatically released after