TABLE 3.
The number of visits to artificial watering points by range‐resident foxes at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary (2015–2017) by month, including the average interval in days between visits (range is shown in parenthesis). These data were derived from the recurse package and intervals of <1 represent revisits where the animal has left the immediate vicinity (>500 m) of the water source and returned sometime during the same day. Empty cells indicate no GPS tracking data were available. For each month, use of watering points outside the home range (AKDE95) area are identified by orange cells; use of watering points inside the home range only are signified by blue cells; and green cells signify use of watering points both outside and inside the home range
| Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox ID | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | No. visits | Interval | |
| 2015 Captures | AM663 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3.2 (<1–5.9) | 11 | 2.2 (1.2–3.9) | 4 | 5.0 (3.1–6.9) | 0 a | |||||||
| AF266 | 6 | 4.2 (<1–12.0) | 5 | 1.5 (<1–2.0) | 5 | 4.2 (2.9–6.1) | 1 | ||||||||||
| AF549 | 1 | 2 | 1.9 | 7 | 2.8 (1.0–7.0) | 7 | 3.0 (1.0–8.1) | 1 | |||||||||
| AF963‐15 | 0 a | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2016 Captures | |||||||||||||||||
| AF369‐16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| AF569‐16 | 16 | 1.2 (<1–3.9) | 8 | 3.1 (1.9–5.1) | 20 | 1.1 (<1–2.3) | 20 | 1.0 (<1–1.9) | |||||||||
| AM654‐16 | 9 | 1.5 (<1–3.3) | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| AF825 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2017 Captures | AM366 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| AM376 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| AF536 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| AM654‐17 | 4 | 0.2 (<1–0.5) | 7 | 1.8 (<1–6.9) | 14 | 2.1 (<1–13.6) | |||||||||||
| AF767 | 21 | 1.1 (<1–2.9) | 31 | 0.8 (<1–4.0) | 31 | 0.8 (<1–4.8) | |||||||||||
GPS data available for 2 days only.