This framing of what is allowed to count matters because it often means attempting to remove the particular, to consider species as units in isolation from all others, and thus to remove specific bodies in encounter from the accounting, and when this happens something is lost in the knowing. Knowing in embodied encounters is a well of knowledge that is never detached, never nowhere, but always deeply emplaced and embodied, and always in contact with and attuned to other, more-than-human bodies. Analyses of remote data, by contrast, progressively erases the agencies of marine wildlife as traces are turned to data points cleaned of ‘noise’ and run through complex computer models. The former are not always more desirable than the latter, and both are imperfect translators of the presences of nonhuman others. However, while the scientific models generated from data collected in remote monitoring may predict a lot about abstract groups of wildlife in general, they tell little about marine animals as particular, individual living beings inextricably entwined in rapidly shifting area ecologies.