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temporary activity areas in the course of their long-term movements is
reminiscent of the localization of movements within the natal range of older
juveniles prior to their disappearance observed in this study. This behavior
may be a normal precursor to dispersal of young bobcats from their mother's
home range. The data for male M7 (see above), although sparse, suggest that
his movements might also have followed the pattern of temporarily localized
activity in the course of long-distance wandering exhibited by the subadults
studied by Griffith et al. (1980).


 Daily Travel


 Adult males tended to move greater distances from one day to the next
than did adult females, and juvenile movements were more restricted than
those of adult females (Fig. 8). The average day-to-day distance moved by all
bobcats was 1.6 km. Means and ranges of day-to-day movements of adult
males, adult females, and juveniles were 2.1 km (0-7.6), 1.4 km (0-6.6), and 1.0
km (0-4.2), respectively. Mean distances moved by individual males were
significantly greater than those of adult females (U67 = 4.5, p < 0.05, 2-tailed),
and juvenile means were significantly lower than those of adult females (U57 =
2.5, p < 0.05, 2-tailed). The ratio of mean adult male to mean adult female
day-to-day movements (1.5:1) was roughly proportional to the ratio of their
respective mean overall home range sizes (1.8:1).
 Longer day-to-day movements of males compared to females also were
 reported in other southeastern studies. Distances were 8.7 km for males versus
 6.3 km for females (ratio 1.4:1) in South Carolina (Buie et al. 1979), 4.5 versus
 1.2 km (ratio 3.8:1) in Tennessee (Kitchings and Story 1979), and 4.4 versus 2.9
 km (ratio 1.5:1) in Louisiana (Hall and Newsom 1976). Ratios of male to
 female home range sizes in these studies were 2.0:1, 3.7:1, and 4.9:1,
 respectively. Straight-line day-to-day movements of males (2.2 km) and females
 (1.4 km) in Louisiana (Hall 1973) were about half the summed successive
 distances between captures (Hall and Newsom 1976), but the ratios were
 similar (1.6:1 vs. 1.5:1).
 The same general correspondence between ratios of day-to-day movements
 and home range size of males and females also has been found in most studies
 in other parts of the range. In Minnesota, the ratio (1.6:1) of mean
 week-to-week distances moved by adult males (4.3 km) and adult females (2.6
 km) was the same as the home range size ratio. Mean day-to-day distances
 moved by male and female adults in Idaho were 1.8 km and 1.2 km,
 respectively, a ratio of 1.5:1 compared with 2.2:1 for mean home range sizes
 (Bailey 1972). Lawhead (1978) reported mean day-to-day movements of 1.2
 km for adult males and 0.9 km for adult females (1.3:1), while the male to