Title
The raccoon (Procyon lotor) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia 4 Comparisons of home ranges determined by livetrapping and radiotracking
Title Variants
Alternative:
Comparisons of home ranges determined by livetrapping and radiotracking
Alternative:
Procyon lotor
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 2664
By
Lotze, Joerg-Henner
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1979
Notes
Title from caption.
"January 3, 1979."
"Home ranges of 49 raccoons (Procyon lotor) from St. Catherines Island, Georgia, each captured at least five times, are compared with home ranges of nine radiotagged raccoons. The mean of final estimates of home range sizes of 35 males (51 В± SE 68 ha.) was significantly different from that for 14 females (6 В± SE 10 ha., t = 2.42, p. < 0.05). The limited female trapping success is related to both a higher mean time interval between captures and a higher mean number of captures per station of capture than for males. Home range size seemed to increase with number of captures using both mean convex polygon and mean circular estimates as well as regression analyses. The estimates of home range of a male raccoon captured 103 times changed in shape, location, and size each year in the four-year study period and did not approach the final estimate of 254 ha. asymptotically. The mean yearly radiotracking home range estimate of seven males (65 В± SE 18 ha.) was not significantly different from that for two females (39 В± SE 16 ha.). For females, the mean home range based on radiotracking was significantly different from the mean home range based on recaptures (t = 3.86, p < 0.05). Home ranges determined by radiotracking did not always coincide closely with home ranges determined by recaptures for the same animals during the same time periods"--P. [1].
Subjects
Behavior
,
Georgia
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Home range
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Home range (Animal geography)
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Mammals
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Raccoon
,
Saint Catherines Island
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.2664, 1979
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
35339504
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