RYSER: VIRGINIA OPOSSUMS (DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA) IN FLORIDA


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such as along lakes and in mesic forests, density and home range overlap was
apparently greater than in less productive areas.
 Most females stayed in a well defined area until death. Of 19 females tracked for
a period of more than three months, only two clearly shifted their home range about
500-1000 m, and a third continuously expanded her range as she grew older. None of
the radio-tagged females dispersed, but two were lost without being retrapped, so were
possible dispersers. One female was apparently trapped and radio-tagged during a
dispersal movement. She disappeared the next day, but one of her small young was
trapped 4.7 km away. One marked female from outside the study area dispersed 2.8


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