Table 2 Bayesian ellipse parameters for fur samples of caracals from rural and urban areas across the study region, including for subsets of individuals for which demographic information was available.

From: Trophic downgrading of an adaptable carnivore in an urbanising landscape

 

Urban

Rural

All

Male

Female

Juvenile

Adult

All

Male

Female

Juvenile

Adult

n

96

49

39

54

37

72

19

16

18

54

TA

55.34

33.94

18.13

47.01

20.93

82.00

27.74

23.10

40.60

74.07

SEA

8.11

8.25

4.66

9.85

4.88

20.61

9.63

9.82

11.71

22.07

SEAc

8.20

8.42

4.80

10.04

5.02

20.89

10.23

10.52

12.44

22.50

  1. The TA (total convex hull area), SEA (standard ellipse area) and SEAc (SEA corrected for small sample size) are based on the maximum likelihood estimates of the means and covariance matrices of each group.
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