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One real tracked animal · Reptiles

Loggerhead turtle

Caretta caretta

date
temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

2,660 km tracked over 71 days.

2,660 kmdistance
71days tracked
137fixes
3°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 71 days, from January 2012 to April 2012, across 137 recorded positions.

It ranged between 27°S and 15°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 25°C and 28°C.

It averaged 37.4 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 2,026 km from its first, so the track we have is a one-way journey rather than a closed loop.

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.