{"id":7262,"date":"2015-05-19T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:42:28","slug":"track-mary-lee-the-great-white-shark-twitter-star-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/05\/19\/track-mary-lee-the-great-white-shark-twitter-star-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Track MARY LEE the Great White Shark (&#038; Twitter Star) in Real Time!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/profile\/mary_lee\/\">Mary Lee<\/a> is a 16-foot, 3500 pound great white shark (<em>Carcharodon carcharias<\/em>) who is headed to Cape Cod, Massachusetts on a historic migration!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She has been tracked since September of 2012 when she was tagged off of the Cape by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocearch.org\">OCEARCH<\/a>, a Utah-based nonprofit organization that researches great white sharks and other large apex predators<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s WHY she&#8217;s been tagged and tracked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OCEARCH\/photos\/pb.249354835166.-2207520000.1432050424.\/10155466641360167\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7269\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11009331_10153369174418760_7009102332876300762_o-e1432050531623.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Lee\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>In a little under three years, she has traveled 20189.497 miles!!!! She must be getting tired!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7265\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-18-at-8.58.45-PM-e1432008069827.png\" alt=\"Shark tracker\" \/>\n<p><strong>She even has an (unofficial) Twitter account:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryLeeShark\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryLeeShark<\/a>\u00a0!! Almost 64K followers!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can find more MLS photos and videos at <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/viR6w0qqhm\">http:\/\/t.co\/viR6w0qqhm<\/a>. Of course I&#8217;ve put on a little weight since. -:() <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LkzXmQDuhP\">https:\/\/t.co\/LkzXmQDuhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryLeeShark\/status\/600455924650749952\">May 19, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryLeeShark\">@MaryLeeShark<\/a> the poem I wrote u was pretty accurate but now you&#8217;re going the wrong way! Turn around plz. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OCEARCH\">@OCEARCH<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/XpYHueiYW4\">pic.twitter.com\/XpYHueiYW4<\/a> \u2014 MA Sharks (@MA_Sharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MA_Sharks\/status\/600403685315870720\">May 18, 2015<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MA_Sharks\/status\/600403685315870720\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7284\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CFUP-FYW0AEIHXa.jpg\" alt=\"mary lee the shark poem\" \/><\/a> <strong>This is a photo of Mary Lee:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/profile\/mary_lee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7271\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-8.50.54-AM-e1432050890548.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 8.50.54 AM\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Q. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DATA YOU\u2019VE COLLECTED?<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong>\u00a0The data is shared in an open source environment with collaborating institutions who utilize it to conduct studies that are eventually published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The papers, which can take 2-5 years to publish, are utilized to assist in policy decisions. The data is also shared with all PhD candidates who request it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW Mary Lee&#8217;s journey HERE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/profile\/mary_lee\/\">http:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/profile\/mary_lee\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW OCEARCH on Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/ocearch\/\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/ocearch\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW me, Pee-wee Herman on Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/peeweeherman\/\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/peeweeherman\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lee is a 16-foot, 3500 pound great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) who is headed to Cape Cod, Massachusetts on a historic migration!! She has been tracked since September of 2012 when she was tagged off of the Cape by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}