Background |
Anna
has proven to be one of the females that travels the most during
winter, and so it will be interesting to see if she continues this
during this season too. During
strong cold fronts she will move from the TTI into Whitewater Bay
in the most southern Everglades area. As temperatures rise again,
she comes back to the TTI/POI area. She is the only female who has
regularly exhibited these movements. Throughout the rest of the
year her home range for feeding areas are Whitehorse and Gullivan
Keys pretty consistently, as well as Gullivan Bay and the grassbeds
of Cape Romano. Throughout the year she makes regular trips to POI
for freshwater.
Anna
was originally captured and tagged at POI on 21 March 2001. She
is a large adult female (314cm long and weighed 1,270 pounds at
time of capture) and had a large calf with her at the time of capture.
By the end of May 2001 she had weaned her calf. We have successfully
tracked her since her original tagging date and have learned that
some of her favorite spots in spring and summer are around Turtle,
Gullivan and Hog Keys, which are all part of the Ten Thousand Islands
area and the Gullivan Bay/Cape Romano area.
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