home range
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5.6
- noun
- Specialized
:
territorio habitual
- Females tend to form social groupings by having overlapping home ranges that are visited by itinerant males.
- home range size
- large home range
- small home ranges
Examples
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Ranging occurs when animals leave their home range for a short time in order to explore new habitat.
Academic text (2017) -
We provided the first robust home range estimates for leopards in the steppe mountains of Asia.
Academic text (2018) -
"You get a sense of his home range over time," Arnold said.
Fiction book (1990) -
Females continue to be seen regularly in the natal home range throughout their lives.
Academic text (1998) -
Five groups have all or part of their home ranges in the approximately sixty-square-mile Wamba Forest.
Academic text (1990) -
Station keeping occurs within an animal's home range and includes foraging, commuting, and territorial behavior.
Academic text (2017) -
During the rainy season, a leguaan scours its home range for prey, covering two to four miles a day.
Academic text (1995) -
Portions of the Sarasota community's home range are dolphin nursery areas.
Academic text (1992) -
Seasonality may partly explain variation in leopard home-range sizes at the population scale.
Academic text (2018) -
Researchers are studying the home range of wolves to understand their hunting behavior.
Synonyms
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3.9
An area where an animal usually lives and moves
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun+noun compound where 'home' (place associated with an animal) combined with 'range' (an area or territory) yields the compositional meaning 'the area around an animal's home that it uses'. The sense is transparent and predictable from the constituents and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Home range comes from the simple image of an animal's home and the area it ranges over. So it means 'the area an animal normally uses'.