One real tracked animal · Mammals

Cheetah

Acinonyx jubatus

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colour = temperature the animal moved through

870 km tracked over 250 days.

870 kmdistance

250days tracked

188fixes

6°Ctemperature range

What the track shows

Followed for 8 months, from July 2006 to March 2007, across 188 recorded positions.

It ranged between 25°S and 25°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 20°C and 26°C.

It averaged 3.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 12 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

This species is poached or persecuted, so the positions shown here are shifted by up to 20 km from where the animal really was. The route, its scale and its timing are unchanged; only the exact location is withheld.