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One real tracked animal · Birds

Griffon vulture

Gyps fulvus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

19,388 km tracked over 616 days.

19,388 kmdistance
616days tracked
537fixes
21°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 8 months, from September 2010 to May 2012, across 537 recorded positions.

It ranged between 18°N and 32°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 8°C to 29°C.

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

It finished within 47 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 74% 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.