Home range and use of diurnal shelters by the Etendeka round-eared sengi, a newly discovered Namibian endemic desert mammal

Autor: Galen B. Rathbun, John P. Dumbacher
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: PeerJ, Vol 3, p e1302 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1302
Popis: To understand habitat use by the newly described Etendeka round-eared sengi (Macroscelides micus) in northwestern Namibia, we radio-tracked five individuals for nearly a month. Home ranges (100% convex polygons) in the rocky desert habitat were remarkably large (mean 14.9 ha) when compared to sengi species in more mesic habitats (
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