Gallagher, Austin J.Alsudairy, Nourah A.Shea, Brendan D.Payne, Nicholas L.Duarte, Carlos M.2022-04-072022-04-072021-07-26707376http://hdl.handle.net/10919/109581Animal-borne video camera systems have long-been used to capture the fine-scale behaviors and unknown aspects of the biology of marine animals. However, their utility to serve as robust scientific tools in the greater bio-logging research community has not been fully realized. Here we provide, for the first time, an application of 360-degree camera technology to a marine organism, using a large tiger shark as a proof-ofconcept case study. Leveraging the three-dimensional nature of the imaging technology, we derived 224 seafloor habitat assessments over the course of the nearly 1-h track, whereby the shark was able to survey similar to 23,000 square meters of seafloor; over threetimes greater than the capacity of non 360-degree cameras. The resulting data provided detailed information on habitat use, diving behavior, and swimming speed, as well seafloor mapping. Our results suggest that 360-degree cameras provide complimentary benefits-and in some cases superior efficiency-than unidirectional video packages, with an enhanced capacity to map seafloor.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalbio-loggingcamera360sharktelemetrymonitoringArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.70737682296-7745