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One real tracked animal · Reptiles

Hawksbill turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata

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colour = temperature the animal moved through

14,133 km tracked over 449 days.

14,133 kmdistance
449days tracked
629fixes
11°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 3 months, from August 2009 to October 2010, across 629 recorded positions.

It ranged between 16°S and 13°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 21°C to 32°C.

It averaged 31.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 296 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 67% 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.