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Atlantic salmon

Salmo salar

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

183 km tracked over 40 days.

183 kmdistance
40days tracked
21fixes
2°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 40 days, from April 2016 to May 2016, across 21 recorded positions.

It ranged between 50°N and 51°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 9°C and 11°C.

It averaged 4.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 147 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.