One real tracked animal · Mammals
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
20,000 km across open ocean, over water miles deep.
Followed for 9 months, from February 2013 to October 2013, across 532 recorded positions.
It ranged between 65°S and 5°N, crossing the equator 2 times.
The water and air it moved through ran from -3°C to 23°C.
It averaged 75.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.
It finished 487 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.
Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 75% of them.