Figure 1.

Predicted variation of step length over the time (from January through the hunting season) in male elk that survived or were harvested during the hunting season (a), in female elk irrespective of their hunting season fate (b), and estimated smoother predicting the effect of age on the variation of step length in female elk (c). Smoothed predicted values and approximate point-wise 95% CIs were calculated by adding the intercept value to the contribution of both fixed and random effects in GAMMs.