One real tracked animal · Mammals

Weddell seal

Leptonychotes weddellii

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colour = temperature the animal moved through

5,917 km tracked over 317 days.

5,917 kmdistance

317days tracked

634fixes

19°Ctemperature range

What the track shows

Followed for 10 months, from February 2000 to December 2000, across 634 recorded positions.

It ranged between 75°S and 71°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -20°C to -1°C.

It averaged 18.7 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 303 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Whose data this is

Dataset: The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Repository: GBIF
Licence: CC BY 4.0
DOI: 10.4225/15/5afcb927e8162

Ropert-Coudert Y, Van de Putte A P, Bornemann H, Charrassin J, Costa D P, Danis B, Hückstädt L A, Jonsen I D, Lea M, Reisinger R R, Thompson D, Torres L G, Trathan P N, Wotherspoon S, Ainley D G, Alderman R, Andrews-Goff V, Arthur B, Ballard G, Bengtson J, Bester M N, Boehme L, Bost C, Boveng P, Cleeland J, Constantine R, Crawford R J M, Dalla Rosa L, de Bruyn P N, Delord K, Descamps S, Double M, Emmerson L, Fedak M, Friedlander A, Gales N, Goebel M, Goetz K T, Guinet C, Goldsworthy S D, Harcourt R, Hinke J, Jerosch K, Kato A, Kerry K R, Kirkwood R, Kooyma G L, Kovacs K M, Lawton K, Lowther A D, Lydersen C, Lyver P O, Makhado A B, Márquez M E I, McDonald B, McMahon C, Muelbert M, Nachtsheim D, Nicholls K W, Nordøy E S, Olmastroni S, Phillips R A, Pistorius P, Plötz J, Pütz K, Ratcliffe N, Ryan P G, Santos M, Schytte Blix A, Southwell C, Staniland I, Takahashi A, Tarroux A, Trivelpiece W, Wakefield E, Weimerskirch H, Wienecke B, Xavier J C, Raymond B, Hindell M A, Van de Putte A (2024). The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Version 1.5. SCAR - AntOBIS. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=scar_raatd_trackingdata&v=1.5 https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5afcb927e8162 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-12-17. accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-27.