New paper: "Wet season range fidelity in migratory wildebeest"

January 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM

Tom Morrison (Postdoc, Coop Unit) and Doug Bolger (Prof, Dartmouth College) published a new study in Journal of Animal Ecology showing that wildebeest have high fidelity to wet season ranges in the Tarangire Ecosystem, of Northern Tanzania. Using photo-identification of individuals, individuals returned between 82-100% of the time to the same range as the previous year. Surprisingly, breeding females were over 3 times more likely to switch ranges than non-breeding females. 

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