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Welcome to Animal Tracks!
You've
reached Animal Tracks, an interactive website that supports contribution
of photos into a searchable and indexed online database.
Currently, our database consists of digital photographs of humpback whales, green
sea turtles and a variety of other sea life. Most of the photographs were taken
over the past two years in the area around West Maui.
We've set up some of the most popular searches to make it easy for you to take a peek. Just use the drop down menu below:
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Search
the Database or Contribute Your Own Photos
It
is also possible to contribute your own digital photographs into our
database. To do this, you will have to be a registered user of thesystem
and you can register by clicking the Join
tab at the top of the
page. Once you are registered, you can use the "Contribute Photos" link
to add and tag photos for the database. Please be aware that contributed
photos will not searchable right away - we have implemented a "review
and release" procedure for contributed photographs. You may also contribute photos via e-mail.Please send an e-mail to rob@whalematch.org and include as much information as possible about your photos including date, location, subject matter, etc. Thanks!
Stay Tuned...
This is an experimental site and we have a number of research ideas and objectives.
You can read about some of our ideas by clicking on the "About
Us" tab. Or, if you are interested in how to create your own Animal Tracks community please visit our "Community" page. We also work with and support several organizations, please learn more about our Partners.
In the meantime, just enjoy the photographs (free and unrestricted use of the photos is encouraged), learn more about the ocean and the
marine environment and get involved. Any questions or comments should be directed
to info@whalematch.org.
How to Best View the Site
This site is best viewed with a monitor resolution of 1024 X 768 or
higher using the latest versions of the Internet
Explorer, Netscape or Opera browsers
for PC; Safari or Mozilla browsers
for Mac. Javascript is used sparingly throughout the site for mouse-over
effects, and for the navigation drop-down menus in the Reader's Forum
- it's therefore recommended you have javascript enabled in your browser.
To help preserve page formatting, optimum browser font size setting is "medium" or "100%."
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