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One real tracked animal · Mammals

South american tapir

Tapirus terrestris

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

815 km tracked over 567 days.

815 kmdistance
567days tracked
566fixes
6°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 7 months, from October 2013 to May 2015, across 566 recorded positions.

It ranged between 19°S and 19°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 23°C and 29°C.

It averaged 1.4 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.