The animals cannot be expected to establish a home range centered on or even including the point of release.
The usual concept of home range, as a finite area with well defined boundaries is not entirely satisfactory for an animal with the habits of the five-lined skink.
In general, however, each point will lie somewhere between the center and edge of the home range, separated from each of the other two points by a distance of, on the average, approximately a home range radius.
Consequently a home range may be long and narrow, with maximum diameter several times the minimum diameter.
The number of recaptures of no individual was great enough to permit application of refined calculations of size of home range as described by Odum and Kuenzler (1955).
He reported that the average radius of home rangewas 274 feet (for an area of approximately 5.
These few exceptionally long movements, up to 2000 feet, involve shifts in home range or migrations motivated by reproductive urge.
Routine day to day movements from shelter to shelter within the area familiar to the animal, the "home range.
Studies of the movements of mammals on a more detailed scale, perhaps by live-traps set at shorter intervals and moved frequently, are needed to increase our understanding of home range.
Showing increasing size of home range of a female cottontail; in July, 1954 (at age of three weeks), she had a range of .
SIZE AND SHAPE OF HOME RANGE Of the 89 cottontails observed in the study, 35 were captured in live-traps only once and were never seen in the field or trailed.
The remaining 54 served for calculation of home rangeby one or more methods.
By the time cottontails are four to five months old they inhabit a home range of four to eight acres.
One of the seven locations was for a capture made at a rock ledge in October, and hence can be eliminated from considerations of home range.
The young males, after becoming independent must tend to wander much more widely, and to settle in new areas far removed from the mother's home range.
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