Lioness JF013 was collared near the centre of the Junction prides territory, but had soon departed from this area. She was a very young lioness and part of a family unit of five including an older adult female and a sister and two brothers of similar age. In contrast to the resident females, lioness JF013 and her cohort appeared to be a part of a roaming family unit with typical nomadic behaviour with no clear boundary (Figure 3.6), antagonistic behaviour to all strange lioness and movement patterns that did not on average return to a central place. The distinction of home range on a long term scale had less meaning from this lioness and was by far the largest calculated total minimum convex polygon for a female at 3,085.1 square kilometres. This very large range was utilized by moving on average 8.0 ±2.2 s.e. km per day similar to the mean daily movements for all CKGR lioness. After three months the collar was removed for use in residential females, and total MCP calculated included occasional sightings over the rest of the study.
Map for JF013
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