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home range

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home range [′hōm ¦rānj]
(ecology)
The physical area of an organism's normal activity.


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5 years of age, 80 percent will leave the maternal home range never to return, 10 percent will leave and then return (like college kids), and the remaining 10 percent will never leave.
To the researchers, these results suggested "female deer may travel outside of their home range during the breeding season to search for potential mates even when mature males are abundant.
With their home range in ruins, finding food is a difficult task.
 
 
 
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