faisant route

English translation: travelling

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French term or phrase:faisant route
English translation:travelling
Entered by: Ghyslaine LE NAGARD

08:18 Jun 8, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
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.
Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
New Caledonia
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: 21:57
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Merci
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Summary of answers provided
1 +6travelling
Gabrielle Leyden
4 +1migrating
Drmanu49
4heading towards
:::::::::: (X)
3on a journey
MatthewLaSon


  

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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: 21:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
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  GILOU
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 day 6 hrs
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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: 21:57
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MatthewLaSon
14 hrs
  -> Thank you Matthew.
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heading towards


Explanation:
heading trowards

:::::::::: (X)
Iraq
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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
Local time: 16:57
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