home range

NOUN
  1. the area in which an animal normally ranges
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How To Use home range In A Sentence

  • Male topi, Damaliscus lunatus, defend core areas within large home ranges at low population densities and wooded habitat, but they form leks at high population densities in open grasslands.
  • Tiles were placed in the same home range areas for all trials, but in different runways or locations to avoid habituation and previous scents.
  • Often wideranging movements can cause gross overestimates of the population size as with a small population with very large home ranges mistaken as a large population with small home ranges.
  • Resident associates or betas were adults / subadults with home ranges that overlapped extensively with those of resident breeders and were directly observed interacting with breeding residents.
  • Conversely, subdominant fish were diurnal and occupied large home ranges by day but were generally not observed at night.
  • For the rest of the year they wander their home ranges or defend their territories against all-comers.
  • The role that these territorial interactions play in influencing the redistribution of animals that have been evicted from their native home ranges remains unclear.
  • The leader organizes troop activities like eating, nesting in leaves, and moving about the group's 0.75-to-16-square-mile (2-to-40-square-kilometer) home range.
  • During the breeding season, coveys break up into breeding pairs that spread out across the home range to nest.
  • The adult males move in larger home ranges that are superimposed spatially upon those of the females.
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