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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

Cynopterus brachyotis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

4,903 km tracked over 507 days.

4,903 kmdistance
507days tracked
126fixes
2°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 5 months, from March 2013 to August 2014, across 126 recorded positions.

It ranged between 7°N and 8°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 27°C and 29°C.

It averaged 9.7 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 98 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.