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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Harbor seal

Phoca vitulina

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

7,372 km tracked over 242 days.

7,372 kmdistance
242days tracked
317fixes
12°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 8 months, from September 2005 to May 2006, across 317 recorded positions.

It ranged between 57°N and 60°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -2°C to 10°C.

It averaged 30.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 69 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 53% of them.