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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Alpine ibex

Capra ibex

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

1,071 km tracked over 131 days.

1,071 kmdistance
131days tracked
131fixes
18°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 4 months, from August 2018 to December 2018, across 131 recorded positions.

It ranged between 45°N and 45°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 5°C to 23°C.

It averaged 8.2 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 17 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.