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One real tracked animal · Fish

Whale shark

Rhincodon typus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

11,057 km tracked over 348 days.

11,057 kmdistance
348days tracked
349fixes
11°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 11 months, from July 2014 to June 2015, across 349 recorded positions.

It ranged between 25°N and 29°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 17°C to 28°C.

It averaged 31.8 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 542 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 61% of them.

This species is poached or persecuted, so the positions shown here are shifted by up to 20 km from where the animal really was. The route, its scale and its timing are unchanged; only the exact location is withheld.