Table 1.

General descriptors concerning the monitoring and the usage of gut piles and mean values (±SD) for different habitats.

Gut pile	No. of ungulate hunted	Species	Habitat	Monitoring length per gut pile (days)	Days before first activity	Activity period per gut pile (days)	No. of pictures per camera
1	10	Red deer	Woodland	6.79	0.44	5.81	158
2	8	Red deer	Woodland	18.56	13.38	5.18	288
3	3	Wild boar	Woodland	16.54	7.93	8.52	72
4	3	Red deer	Open	7.46	2.86	3.81	58
5	2	Wild boar	Woodland	14.62	1.43	13.19	29
6	2	Red deer	Open	7.57	0.95	5.11	103
7	2	Red deer	Woodland	5.69	2.28	3.32	109
8	40	Red deer	Open	14.17	0.65	12.11	1
9	20	Both	Open	11.15	0.51	9.81	1,528
10	30	Both	Open	9.56	0.61	8.76	619
11	7	Both	Open	3.26	0.01	3.25	258
12	10	Both	Open	23.94	4.56	19.01	537
13	15	Both	Open	19.77	1.20	17.98	8
14	3	Both	Open	35.97	2.77	30.71	897
15	20	Both	Open	15.94	4.90	11.04	1,482
16	20	Both	Open	18.24	0.94	16.87	1,363
17	30	Wild boar	Open	4.65	0.35	4.13	657
18	2	Both	Woodland	31.65	0.65	27.86	1,125
		Mean values in open (N = 12)		14.31 ± 9.29	1.69 ± 1.67	11.88 ± 8.13	625.92 ± 578.09
		Mean values in woodland (N = 6)		15.64 ± 9.42	4.35 ± 5.22	10.65 ± 9.1	296.83 ± 415.4

Activity period per gut pile (days) is defined as the period of time occurring from the first activity until the last scavenging activity detected in the gut pile.