BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL 38, PT. 11(6)


Table 2. Partial correlation between mean distance traveled per hour, distance traveled per night or home range
size and various potentially influencing factors (see method for definitions). Level of significance is set at 0.01
(Bonferroni correction).


Males


Distance/hour


Min.temp.
Range size
Body size
Age

Min.temp.
Range size
Body size
Age


Distance/night


Home range size


Habitat
Body size
Age
Track.period
N of locations


(n=88)
r=0.27*
r=0.47
r-0.03
r=0.01

r=0.38**
r=0.44*
r=0.01
r=-0.11

(n=33)
r-0.40
r=0.40*
r=0.14
r=-0.18
r=0.57*


Females


(n=55)
r=0.24
r=-0.18
r=0.36*
r=0.13

r=0.55**
r=-0.18
r=0.27
r=0.11

(n=33)
r=0.31
r=-0.11
r-0.26
r-0.32
r=0.30


* p<0.01
 p<0.001




km. Both dispersal movements occurred when females were carrying young in their
pouch. Vacancies caused by death were rapidly filled by immigrants (unmarked
females) or young. Female young were philopatric and usually established a home
range close to or even within that of their mother. During their first breeding season in
January, female young of 1987 were trapped or located an average of 752 m
(maximum 1950 m, n=12) from their mother. During the study period, female young
were in three cases known to have established a home range within their mother's
range. In one case the young female took over her mother's range when the mother
died after weaning of her young.
 Male home ranges showed greater overlap than female home ranges, because
male ranges were considerably larger at similar male population density (Fig. 5). In
summer 1987, for which the most reliable data from the non-breeding season are
available, 0% to 100% or an average of 63% (n=12) of the area of male home ranges
was overlapped by other male ranges. It was not unusual to find three or four males
exploiting the same area. In no case were adult males exploiting the same area known
to be related to each other or to females living within their ranges.