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December 2025 Newsletter
Dear Movebank users,
As 2025 draws to a close, below are some highlights from this past ...
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Movebank is a free, online database of animal tracking data hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. We help animal tracking researchers to manage, share, protect, analyze and archive their data.
- 9.6 billion locations
- 8.3 billion other sensor records
- 9,622 studies
- 1,618 taxa
- 5,046 data owners
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