One real tracked animal · Birds
King penguin
Aptenodytes patagonicus
Rides the Southern Ocean inside a narrow band of cold.
Followed for 9 months, from December 2007 to August 2008, across 521 recorded positions.
It ranged between 59°S and 48°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.
The water and air it moved through ran from -4°C to 6°C.
It averaged 46.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.
Its last fix was 4,776 km from its first, so the track we have is a one-way journey rather than a closed loop.
Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 64% of them.