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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Fin whale

Balaenoptera physalus

date
temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

3,592 km tracked over 157 days.

3,592 kmdistance
157days tracked
88fixes
10°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 5 months, from April 2001 to September 2001, across 88 recorded positions.

It ranged between 25°N and 31°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 22°C to 32°C.

It averaged 22.8 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 38 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.