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Common water monitor

Varanus salvator

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

44 km tracked over 132 days.

44 kmdistance
132days tracked
82fixes
2°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 4 months, from April 2022 to August 2022, across 82 recorded positions.

It ranged between 14°N and 14°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 0.3 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 7 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.