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Seasonal Home Range Sizes, Transboundary Movements And Conservation Of Elephants In Northern Tanzania, Alfred P. Kikoti
Seasonal Home Range Sizes, Transboundary Movements And Conservation Of Elephants In Northern Tanzania, Alfred P. Kikoti
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Although the unprotected lands of northern Tanzania support large numbers of elephants, and provide critical linkages for wildlife movements across the region, there is little information on the dispersal patterns of elephants in these unprotected lands. Our home range measures (100% MCP) of 21 elephants with satellite collars in four study regions were highly variable (191 to 3,698 km2). Home range sizes (95% fixed kernel) of bulls were typically larger than those of females, and wet season ranges were typically larger than dry season ranges. There were large differences in average home range sizes reflected varying strategies for obtaining food …