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. 2023 Jun 3;11:30. doi: 10.1186/s40462-023-00392-3

Table 1.

Estimated parameters from the HMM-SSF fitted to zebra telemetry data

State/transition Covariate Estimate (95% CI)
Movement (SSF) Encamped Step length L β1(1) -13.6(-14.8,-12.3)
log(L) β2(1) -1.18(-1.21,-1.15)
cos(θ) β3(1) -0.01(-0.07,0.04)
Exploratory Step length L β1(2) -3.11(-3.36,-2.86)
log(L) β2(2) -0.65(-0.78,-0.53)
cos(θ) β3(2) 1.46(1.33,1.59)
Habitat (SSF) Encamped Bushed grassland β4(1) 0.21(0.03,0.39)
Bushland β5(1) -0.19(-0.46,0.08)
Woodland β6(1) -0.56(-1.08,-0.05)
Exploratory Bushed grassland β4(2) -1.00(-1.16,-0.83)
Bushland β5(2) -2.19(-2.42,-1.96)
Woodland β6(2) -1.96(-2.26,-1.66)
Transition probabilities (HMM) Encamped − exploratory Intercept α0(1,2) -1.83(-1.98,-1.69)
cos2πτ24 α1(1,2) 0.03(-0.14,0.21)
sin2πτ24 α2(1,2) 0.81(0.63,0.99)
Exploratory − encamped Intercept α0(2,1) -1.26(-1.40,-1.12)
cos2πτ24 α1(2,1) 0.15(-0.02,0.33)
sin2πτ24 α2(2,1) 0.14(-0.04,0.32)

Note, these are the untransformed β estimates and do not directly represent the mean and variance of the assumed gamma distribution; the turning angle (given by θ) parameter represents the angular concentration of the von Mises distribution. L is the step length (km) and τ is the hour of the day.