Home range size of domestic cats in Spain
[Description of methods used for collection/generation of data] Sixty-four different domestic cats were tagged with three different types of devices (Tractive IKATI GPS-GPM collars (https://tractive.com), 48 cats; backpack-GPS-datalogger CatLog2 (http://www.mr-lee.com/science.htm), 14 cats; and e-Ob...
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| Tipo de recurso: | conjunto de datos |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/336578 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/336578 https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/15624 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Movement Spain Domestic cat Felis catus Free-roaming cat Home range size Kernel method Minimum convex polygon Método kernel Movimientos Área de campeo España Gatos de movimiento libre Gato doméstico Menor polígono convexo |
| Sumario: | [Description of methods used for collection/generation of data] Sixty-four different domestic cats were tagged with three different types of devices (Tractive IKATI GPS-GPM collars (https://tractive.com), 48 cats; backpack-GPS-datalogger CatLog2 (http://www.mr-lee.com/science.htm), 14 cats; and e-Obs GPS collars 1A (https://e-obs.de/products.html), two cats. Every type of device had its own tracking schedule. Tractive collars can not be programmed, and they, in normal conditions, take one location every 3 minutes, but it varies depending on animal activity and movement (see https://help.tractive.com/hc/es for more details). Backpack GPS dataloggers were programmed to take fixes every 10 min. Finally, e-Obs collars were programmed to take fixes every 4 hours. Cats tagged with Tractive collars were managed by volunteers over Spain, who wished to participate in the study by tagging their cats. Every volunteer fit the collar to its cats and charged the collar battery when necessary. These cats were tracked during a period ranging between 10 and 66 days, but for different reasons, collar batteries were not continuously working, so the number of effective days of tracking ranged between 10 and 34 days. Three cats were tracked in two different periods. Backpack dataloggers were used to track the movements of an unattended cat colony in the municipality of Abla (Almería province), on the border of the Sierra Nevada Natural Park, and one free-ranging isolated individual living in the Sierra Aracena y Picos de Aroche Natural Park in the municipality of Jabugo (Huelva province). These cats were trapped with trap boxes baited with commercial pellet cat food, and immobilized with Ketamine (Imalgene 100mg/ml) and Medetomidine hydrochloride (Domtor 1mg/ml) according to manufacturer dosage instructions, before installing or removing the backpacks. The effect of anaesthesia was reverted with Antisedan 5mg/ml. For these cats, the tracking period ranged between 8 and 58 days. Finally, two cats living in an isolated house inside the Sierra Nevada Natural Park were tagged with e-Obs collars for 49 and 82 days. These cats were tame, so we managed to put the collars without trapping and immobilizing them. The study was undertaken with the correspondent permissions (including the bioethics one) of the Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible of the Junta de Andalucía, the Sierra Nevada National and Natural Park, and the Dirección General de la Producción Agrícola y Ganadera of the Junta de Andalucía. |
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