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 | ||
| log(L) | ||||
| cos() | ||||
| Exploratory | Step length L | |||
| log(L) | ||||
| cos() | ||||
| Habitat (SSF) | Encamped | Bushed grassland | ||
| Bushland | ||||
| Woodland | ||||
| Exploratory | Bushed grassland | |||
| Bushland | ||||
| Woodland | ||||
| Transition probabilities (HMM) | Encamped − exploratory | Intercept | ||
| cos | ||||
| sin | ||||
| Exploratory − encamped | Intercept | |||
| cos | ||||
| sin |
Note, these are the untransformed estimates and do not directly represent the mean and variance of the assumed gamma distribution; the turning angle (given by ) parameter represents the angular concentration of the von Mises distribution. L is the step length (km) and is the hour of the day.