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One real tracked animal · Reptiles

Green turtle

Chelonia mydas

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

6,711 km tracked over 330 days.

6,711 kmdistance
330days tracked
207fixes
16°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 11 months, from April 2018 to March 2019, across 207 recorded positions.

It ranged between 20°N and 26°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 21°C to 37°C.

It averaged 20.4 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 13 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 51% of them.

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.