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One real tracked animal · Reptiles

Hood island giant tortoise

Chelonoidis hoodensis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

128 km tracked over 1,176 days.

128 kmdistance
1,176days tracked
1,133fixes
7°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 3 years and 3 months, from September 2010 to December 2013, across 1,133 recorded positions.

It ranged between 1°S and 1°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 20°C to 27°C.

It averaged 0.1 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 1 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.