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Investigation of Adult Male White-tailed Deer Excursions Outside Their Home Range


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dc.contributorGabriel Karns, GRK0002@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorKarns, Gabriel R.
dc.creatorLancia, Richard A.
dc.creatorDePerno, Christopher S.
dc.creatorConner, Mark C.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T16:20:54Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T16:20:54Z
dc.date.created2011
dc.identifier10.1656/058.010.0104en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50032
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-101
dc.description.abstract- Although male and female Odocoileus virginianus (White-tailed Deer) exhibit high site fi delity throughout the year, individuals occasionally leave their home ranges on short excursions during the fall and winter months. Although motives for these extraneous movements are diffi cult to discern, excursions are likely the function of the breeding season, food sources, limited escape cover, and/or human disturbances. From 2003–2007, we examined GPS collar locations of 32 adult male White-tailed Deer at Chesapeake Farms, MD. Seasonal excursions (n = 37), defi ned as movements lasting a minimum of 6 hours and venturing at least 0.5 km from 95% kernel home-range contours, were examined relative to possible motives related to food resources, breeding, and hunting pressure. Sixty-three percent (n = 20) of adult males made at least one excursion outside their home range immediately before or during breeding season. Based on the seasonal timing of excursions, breeding-season-related motives were likely the driving force behind the majority of adult male White-tailed Deer excursions, whereas hunting pressure and food resources were not a probable cause.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherEagle Hill Instituteen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSoutheastern Naturalisten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries1528-7092en_US
dc.rights© Eagle Hill Institute 2011. This is the version of record published by Eagle Hill Institute and is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: GR Karns, RA Lancia, CS DePerno, MC Conner 2011 Investigation of adult male white-tailed deer excursions outside their home range - Southeastern Naturalist, 10(1) : 39-52.en_US
dc.titleInvestigation of Adult Male White-tailed Deer Excursions Outside Their Home Rangeen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume10en_US
dc.citation.issue1en_US
dc.citation.spage39en_US
dc.citation.epage52en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US

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