Home range, sleeping site use, and band fissioning in hamadryas baboons: Improved estimates using GPS collars.

ABSTRACT: Variation in spatial and temporal distribution of resources drives animal movement patterns. Links between ecology and behavior are particularly salient for the multilevel society of hamadryas baboons, in which social units cleave and coalesce over time in response to ecological factors. Here, we used data from GPS collars to estimate home range size and assess temporal patterns of sleeping site use in a band of hamadryas baboons in Awash National Park, Ethiopia. We used GPS data derived from 2 to 3 collared baboons over three 8-12-month collaring intervals to estimate annual and monthly home ranges using kernel density estimators (KDEs) and minimum convex polygons (MCPs). The 95% KDE home range was 64.11 km² for Collaring Interval I (July 2015-March 2016), 85.52 km²

SUBMITTER: Henriquez MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244037 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature