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Exploring Galápagos, the sharkiest place on Earth with Pelayo Salinas de León
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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
Come with us on a voyage to one of the most remote, biodiverse and "sharkiest" places on the planet with leading expert Pelayo Salinas, co-principal investigator of shark ecology and conservation at the Charles Darwin Foundation and Save Our Seas Foundation project leader. In this episode we go on a dive to observe scalloped hammerheads visiting their after-work spa, get booped by the bouncer of the reef, Galapagos sharks, and swim alongside the world's largest fish. And, if that wasn't enough, we head off on an expedition into the deep to visit a very unusual egg-laying site on a hydrothermal vent...
You can follow Pelayo on instagram and twitter (@pelayosalinas) and find out more about the Charles Darwin Foundation here: https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/
Shownotes: www.saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/podcast
Follow SOSF: @saveourseasfoundation (instagram), @SaveOurSeas (x/twitter)
You can follow Pelayo on instagram and twitter (@pelayosalinas) and find out more about the Charles Darwin Foundation here: https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/
Shownotes: www.saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/podcast
Follow SOSF: @saveourseasfoundation (instagram), @SaveOurSeas (x/twitter)
Released:
May 16, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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