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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Blue whale

Balaenoptera musculus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

18,058 km tracked over 502 days.

18,058 kmdistance
502days tracked
156fixes
14°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 5 months, from August 2004 to January 2006, across 156 recorded positions.

It ranged between 22°N and 43°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 10°C to 24°C.

It averaged 36 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 2,147 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 73% of them.