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One real tracked animal · Birds

Sarus crane

Grus antigone

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

5,114 km tracked over 798 days.

5,114 kmdistance
798days tracked
699fixes
2°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 2 years and 2 months, from February 2015 to April 2017, across 699 recorded positions.

It ranged between 13°N and 14°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 26°C and 28°C.

It averaged 6.4 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 2 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.