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- Title
Scale-free dynamics in the movement patterns of jackals.
- Authors
Atkinson, R.P.D.; Rhodes, C.J.; Macdonald, D.W.; Anderson, R.M.
- Abstract
Using conventional radio-tracking techniques employed by field ecologists, evidence for scale-free (fractal) behaviour in the foraging trajectories of a species of African jackal is presented. It is believed that the particular form of foraging strategy observed here is a response by the jackal to its need to locate resources in an unpredictable environment. The methods used in this study are completely general and can be applied to other radio-tracked species, thus beginning a systematic investigation of foraging strategies in mammals.
- Subjects
JACKALS; ANIMAL mechanics
- Publication
Oikos, 2002, Vol 98, Issue 1, p134
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.980114.x