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Short-finned pilot whale

Globicephala macrorhynchus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

7,698 km tracked over 349 days.

7,698 kmdistance
349days tracked
114fixes
16°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 11 months, from October 2015 to October 2016, across 114 recorded positions.

It ranged between 36°N and 38°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 10°C to 26°C.

It averaged 22.1 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 81 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 54% of them.