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home range
noun
- the area in which an animal normally lives.
home range
noun
- ecology the area in which an animal normally ranges
Word History and Origins
Origin of home range1
Example Sentences
This creates situations where, for example, a species like the hog deer, a small deer native to South Asia, is endangered in its home range but hunted and treated as feral in Australia.
By expanding our home range, we’re now able to extract more resources from our environment.
It’s almost as if these final tweaks made bipedalism even more efficient, and allowed us to travel greater distances, expand our home range.
A typical home range, therefore, seems to average no more than 75 feet in radius.
The home range of the coyote is rarely ten miles across, except on the margin of mountains where sometimes it is twice this.
An individual may, and usually does, alter its home range over periods of time.
The area within which routine daily movements are confined constitutes the home range, which is variable in size and shape.
The home range is thus somewhat three-dimensional; both trails and feeding places are often above ground.
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