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faisant route

English translation: travelling


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French term or phrase:faisant route
English translation:travelling
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Zoology / marine mammals
French term or phrase: faisant route
faisant route
en parlant de cétacés.

Fait partie d'une questionnaire, il n'y a donc pas de phrase.

Thanks for your help.
NewCal
New Caledonia
Local time: 19:16
travelling
Explanation:
"faire route" = to travel, journey, "to be on the road"; it could mean travelling or migrating or, by extension, "on their migration routes".

Hope this helps,

Gaby
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Gabrielle Leyden
Belgium
Local time: 09:16
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Merci
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
1 +6travellingGabrielle Leyden
4 +1migrating
Drmanu49
4heading towards
Dr D Jones
3on a journey
MatthewLaSon


  

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +6
travelling


Explanation:
"faire route" = to travel, journey, "to be on the road"; it could mean travelling or migrating or, by extension, "on their migration routes".

Hope this helps,

Gaby

Gabrielle Leyden
Belgium
Local time: 09:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Merci

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Isabelle Berquin
3 hrs

agree  GILLES MEUNIER
6 hrs

agree  John Speese: Agree, travelling or migrating, as whales do.
8 hrs

agree  Nadia Ayoub: http://www.operationcetaces.com/fichiers/3926.pdf
9 hrs

agree  Ariadne Ashby
21 hrs

agree  mechthild
1 day6 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
migrating


Explanation:
Southern right whale migration. Southern right whalee Winter/Spring: During the winter and spring, they are found in their coastal mating and calving ...
www.whaleroute.com/migrate/index.htm - 12k -

As the gray whales migrate along the Pacific Coast, we may have a brief chance to view them before their return to a world that remains mysterious. ...
www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/wildlife_viewing_whales.htm - 39k -

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 09:16
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
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agree  MatthewLaSon
14 hrs
  -> Thank you Matthew.
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heading towards


Explanation:
heading trowards

Dr D Jones
France
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
on a journey


Explanation:
Hello,

I think this is more literal, but I think that "migration" is what's being implied here.

I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
United States
Local time: 03:16
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