BAIJI DOLPHINS - Japanese team to study Chilka lake dolphins

Interesting news from the Indian Business Standard on another endangered animal. A Japanese research team is to employ techniques formerly used to study the endangered Baiji Dolphin to study the . Irrawady Dolphins of Chilika Lake

A team of Japanese scientists, in collaboration with researchers in India, will undertake a study of Irrawady Dolphins, inhabiting the Chilika Lake in Orissa, using acoustic technology.

This is the first time that a study using such technology is being conducted in the country, Ajit Patnaik, chief executive of the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) said.
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Specially designed hydrophones, an underwater acoustic device, caught these sounds as 'clicks' of a specified duration and bandwidth, he said.
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The Indo-Japan research team would use such customised hydrophones to track these 'clicks' which were emitted in a confined beam. Such technology was used to observe the behaviour of Chinese river dolphin 'Baiji' which used its sonar pulses for finding prey, Ura said.