home range
the area in which an animal normally lives.
Origin of home range
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How to use home range in a sentence
A typical home range, therefore, seems to average no more than 75 feet in radius.
Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog | Henry S. FitchThe home range of the coyote is rarely ten miles across, except on the margin of mountains where sometimes it is twice this.
Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. MillsAn individual may, and usually does, alter its home range over periods of time.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana | Henry S. FitchThe area within which routine daily movements are confined constitutes the home range, which is variable in size and shape.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana | Henry S. FitchThe home range is thus somewhat three-dimensional; both trails and feeding places are often above ground.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana | Henry S. Fitch
British Dictionary definitions for home range
ecology the area in which an animal normally ranges
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