A shy lioness
Lioness HF012 responded to playbacks of prey animals in distress on the western boundary of the CKGR. It was clear from discussion with local farmers that understanding lion behaviour near and across the boundaries if the game reserve would be beneficial. This lioness travelled with a single female partner, and very occasionally with a pair of males about which little was known, as no vet was available when the males were encountered. This lioness acted as a resident with a reasonable static boundary range and had very similar range sizes and movement distances to the other resident females SF009 and PF015, but included two noticeable journeys outside the usual range.
This type of home range, or utilisation distribution is formed with a kernel density estimate, which uses statistics to estimate the most important areas of an animals home range.
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