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Home range, dispersion ability

 

This animal is sedentary and remains faithful to its home range. It moves within a small home range between 1 and 4 hectares.

 


As a rule, juveniles remain close to their birth place, at least for the first years of their lives, whereas immatures tend to go further afield.

If individuals have been forced to leave their home range because of disturbance to their habitat (for example by fire or damage caused by human activities), they will attempt to return. The
same occurs when animals have been intentionally moved.