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One real tracked animal · Reptiles

Olive ridley turtle

Lepidochelys olivacea

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

6,677 km tracked over 167 days.

6,677 kmdistance
167days tracked
324fixes
1°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 5 months, from May 2005 to October 2005, across 324 recorded positions.

It ranged between 11°S and 7°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 26°C and 27°C.

It averaged 40.1 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 330 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 50% 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.