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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Southern elephant seal

Mirounga leonina

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

20,000 km to the Antarctic ice and home to within 11 km.

20,100 kmdistance
341days tracked
504fixes
12°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 11 months, from December 2007 to November 2008, across 504 recorded positions.

It ranged between 69°S and 43°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 0°C to 12°C.

It averaged 58.9 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 11 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 75% of them.