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I am Amindika, a master's student in Remote sensing.

The questionnaire is part of the master thesis to analyze the whales’ habitat suitability in Sri Lanka. In this study, I need to identify the priority of criteria and identifying each sub-criteria’s for whales' habitats in Sri Lanka.

Please answer the questions according to your opinions. The answer has to be used only for study and certifies that it will not affect any of you. 

Please find the attached doc, and kindly, fill it and send it back to me, amindika.kks@gmail.com

Thanks, 

Best regards Amindika 

I saw this questions and I need opinions about this!!!

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"Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second."

Take a look at this interesting TED talk at the following website: http://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_patek_clocks_the_fastest_animals.html

Cheers

Ana Catarino

Hi,

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