The whale shark year
Tagged whale sharks tracked around the world, looping through one calendar year.
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Charting a year of whale sharks
The globe is on its way — a year of sharks is right behind it.
Reading a journey
- The recorded route so far
- The shark right now
- A fixed acoustic receiver — it lights up when the shark is heard; no path is drawn between receivers
- The other featured journeys
Every point is a CC0 or CC BY 4.0 licensed record from GBIF, contributed by:
- ECOCEAN Western Australia whale shark tracking
- Whale shark satellite tagging, Galápagos (Ecuador)
- Whale shark sightings and tracking in the Coral Sea
- IMOS animal tracking — acoustic detections
- ECOCEAN Christmas Island whale shark tracking
- and 30+ further collections
GBIF download DOI: 10.15468/dl.y847cu