Certificate + 30-day journey, delivered in a minute
Soft plush (27 cm) + gift card to print, with QR code
Soft plush (27 cm) + plush keyring + gift card to print, with QR code
A real journey recorded in 2019, replayed one day at a time. Not live tracking.
Delivery in 3–5 days with tracking.
Give a name to a real young emperor penguin and follow, day by day, its first journey from the Antarctic coast into the Southern Ocean, recorded by scientists.
A link and a printable PDF certificate, by email in a minute. Or on the date you choose, with your message.
The gift card to print, with the QR code to open the journey, comes by email in a minute. The plush comes by post. Delivery in 3–5 days with tracking.
It starts when the recipient opens it: one new day of the route every day for 30 days. Every day already unlocked stays visible. Access for 12 months.
recorded 11 January 2019
January 2019, Atka Bay, on the coast of Antarctica, near the research station Neumayer III. A young emperor penguin, born the winter before, weighs 15 kilograms and is about to leave the colony for the first time, alone. A small satellite tag records where it goes. Scientists call it 65787. From today, it is Pip.
The real first chapter of this journey, shown with the sample name Pip.
In January 2019 a young emperor penguin of the Atka Bay colony, in Antarctica, weighing 15 kg, left the colony alone for the first time with a small satellite tag. In 30 days its daily positions trace 1,377 km northwards, crossing the Antarctic Circle and the 60th parallel south. Every point on your 30-day map is a real position, recorded on that day.
Data: Houstin A, Zitterbart DP, Heerah K, Eisen O, Planas-Bielsa V, Fabry B, Le Bohec C (2022), Data from: Juvenile emperor penguin range calls for extended conservation measures in the Southern Ocean, Movebank Data Repository, doi 10.5441/001/1.sg2s0f7q, licence CC0. Scientific ID: 65787.
The name you choose is a gift name: the scientists know this penguin as 65787, and other people may follow the same journey under other names.
365 days and 12,525 km on the map, up to 2,269 km from the colony and back towards Antarctica.
No. It's a real journey recorded by scientists (2018 for the turtle, 2019 for the penguin, 2008 for the elephant, 2004 for the polar bear), replayed for you one day at a time. Every point is a real recorded position; the rare estimated days are marked and drawn with a dotted line.
We join one recorded position per day with a straight line, the same line you see on your map. Its real path was longer, and the data can't say by how much.
No one owns a wild animal. The name is a gift name for the journey: it appears on your certificate and on your map. Other people may follow the same journey with other names.
MapMyPet is a gift shop, not a charity: your purchase pays for the gift. The data comes from open scientific studies, credited on every page.
When the recipient opens it. A gift opened at Christmas starts at Christmas, from day 1.
No: a link and a browser. The certificate can be printed.
12 months from activation; the certificate is yours to keep.
Delivery in 3–5 days with tracking. The gift card isn't in the parcel: it comes by email in a minute, to print.
