Home Range Size
After excluding three bobcats and six coyotes that exhibited transient
movement behavior, 35 annual home ranges were estimated using AKDE and
two were estimated using KDE (Figure 1). Bobcat mean home range size was
32.0 km2 (n =12, range 2.5-132.0
km2) and coyote mean home range size was 213.3
km2 (n =25, range 7.1-849.0
km2) (Supporting Information). Bobcat home ranges were
significantly smaller than those of coyotes (t=-2.297, DF=35, p=0.028).
There was no difference in home range size between bobcat males and
females (female n =6, male n =6, t=-1.487, DF=10, p=0.168),
but home ranges in central Illinois were significantly larger than those
in southern Illinois (central Illinois n =2, μ=115.1
km2, southern Illinois n =10, μ=15.3
km2, t=9.409, DF=10, p<0.001). There was
also no difference between male and female coyote home range size
(female n =10, male n =15, t=-0.318, DF=23, p=0.753) or
between study sites (central Illinois n =19, southern Illinoisn =6, t=0.249, DF=23, p=0.806).