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One real tracked animal · Birds

White-backed vulture

Gyps africanus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

20,024 km tracked over 443 days.

20,024 kmdistance
443days tracked
441fixes
10°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 3 months, from February 2009 to May 2010, across 441 recorded positions.

It ranged between 22°S and 18°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 17°C to 27°C.

It averaged 45.2 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 50 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 75% 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.