Monitoring of Mediterranean whales, dolphins and turtles. Life Conceptu Maris project: in one year, 556 sightings and 13 encounters with the giants of the Tyrrhenian Sea

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The first data on the species of whales, dolphins and turtles in the Mediterranean basin arrive: only in 2022, in the course of 40 days of monitoring, more than 10,000 km travelled, and 288 hours of observation, ISPRA researchers recorded a total of 556 sightings, in particular of striped dolphins (465) and bottlenose dolphins (67), 13 encounters with giants of the sea such as fin whales and sperm whales, and some isolated sightings of common dolphins and Risso's dolphins. The sighting of the six jumps of one of the area's sperm whales was extraordinary.