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The animal that takes the crown for longest distance covered in one year

A grey wolf in Mongolia roamed more than 7,000 kilometres in a single year, but caribou boast the longest annual migration.
Grey Wolf walking through snowy mountains

Predators such as grey wolves tend to roam greater distances than their prey, according to a broad study of terrestrial mammals. Credit: Janette Hill/Robert Harding/Getty

Which land animal has the longest migration? Biologists have long suspected that caribou journey the farthest on their annual round trip, but hard evidence was lacking.

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Nature 575, 260 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03373-y

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