Hi Oliver, though male bagders in Ireland travel on average 2.5 km/night (females slightly less), the data from the Polish paper (below) suggests 7 km with no sex bias.  What is the habitat like where you are doing your study? There is quite a lot of variabiity for badgers across Europe.

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Hi John,

thanks for that hint.

Do you have any publication on the Irish badgers?

I think ours would be somewhat inbetween. The areas contain some forest but not  as hughe and "natural" like in Poland. Unfortunately, nearly nobody is working on badgers in Germany. And the one person I know had only very few badgers transmittered, thus: no publication!

I'm just finalising the paper now Oliver :)  I'll pull together a few more publications for you and send them on. 

A few more references for you Oliver - perhaps the one of Do Linh San could be more applicable to your study area?

Do Linh San, E, Ferrari, N, Weber, J-M (2007) Socio-spatial organization of Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) in a low density population of central Europe. Canadian J. Zoology, 85, 973-984.

Molina-Vacas, G, Bonet-Arbolí, V, Rafart-Plaza, E, Rodríguez-Teijeiro, JD (2009) Spatial ecology of European badgers (Meles meles) in Mediterranean habitats of the north-eastern Iberian peninsula. I: home range size, spatial distribution and social organization. Life and Environment, 59, 2, 227-236.

Revilla, E, Palomares, F (2002) Spatial organization, group living and ecological correlates in low-density populations of Eurasian badgers, Meles meles. J. Animal Ecology, 71, 497-512.

Hi Oliver

i dont have any data of my own for these species but i can recommend you to search in movebank. www.movebank.org. if you go to the "tracking data map" tab on the upper left, you can search for your species. I did a quick search for few of the manes mentioned in the list, and in some cases you can find either the data or just the name of the study (if the data was not shared), allowing you to contact the main investigator. you can also try to contact them (Sarah Davidson) directly since some of the studies are hidden, but  she might be able to connect you with relevant PIs

i hope it  helps.

all the best

Orr

Hi Oliver,

your question seems a bit strange to me, as I was working on GPS-data on red deer in Lower Saxony with (a colleague of yours) Reinhild Graeber at the TiHo Hannover, who had collected data over a quite long period of time - at least for that species you should be able to get appropriate information from her.

Hope it helps,

Pascal 

I can get Elk (Cervus elaphus) same species different subspecies, may not fit into the paper, also Cougar and Grizzly (Ursus arctos) are available to me, possibly also Timberwolf (Canis lupus) all data from Alberta, canada

Ok, wolf would help

Hi Pascal,

Of course Rainhild does have data. But mostly with long time gaps. We are searching for some more. Could also be a possibility for creating a database for others. But looks like nobody is realy interested...

We do not have bears. Wolves, ok, but the method is not very good on wolves. But we could test the method as we know all wolves there (by genetics).

Well, the wolves I can get are from SW Alberta, maybe Håkan Sand is a better contact as the Swedish data, especially from collared individuals ending up in southern sweden is more closely related to German conditions. Just send me a mail otherwise and Ill se what I can do

There has been an extensive study on Red deer on the island of Rhum off the west cost of Scotland that has taken place for around 60 years. The body undertaking the work have a considerable catalogue of available papers you can access. Have a look at http://rumdeer.biology.ed.ac.uk for more information.