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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Walrus

Odobenus rosmarus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

4,220 km tracked over 178 days.

4,220 kmdistance
178days tracked
125fixes
8°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 6 months, from May 1990 to November 1990, across 125 recorded positions.

It ranged between 58°N and 59°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 6°C to 14°C.

It averaged 23.7 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 6 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.