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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Sperm whale

Physeter macrocephalus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

14,614 km tracked over 607 days.

14,614 kmdistance
607days tracked
95fixes
7°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 8 months, from July 2002 to February 2004, across 95 recorded positions.

It ranged between 19°N and 34°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 22°C to 29°C.

It averaged 24.1 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 1,069 km from its first, so the track we have is a one-way journey rather than a closed loop.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 69% of them.