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One real tracked animal · Mammals

African forest elephant

Loxodonta cyclotis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

1,188 km tracked over 586 days.

1,188 kmdistance
586days tracked
443fixes
5°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 7 months, from December 2003 to July 2005, across 443 recorded positions.

It ranged between 2°S and 2°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 23°C and 28°C.

It averaged 2 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 15 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

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.