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One real tracked animal · Mammals

Baird's tapir

Tapirus bairdii

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

173 km tracked over 279 days.

173 kmdistance
279days tracked
49fixes
2°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 9 months, from April 2022 to January 2023, across 49 recorded positions.

It ranged between 18°N and 18°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 26°C and 28°C.

It averaged 0.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 3 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.