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Blainville's beaked whale

Mesoplodon densirostris

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

406 km tracked over 19 days.

406 kmdistance
19days tracked
30fixes
1°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 19 days, from December 2009 to January 2010, across 30 recorded positions.

It ranged between 20°N and 21°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 23°C and 24°C.

It averaged 21.8 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 52 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.