Tag: Jeremy Pustilnik

Home (on the) ranges of pronghorn: The Brownian bridge movement model– Jeremy D. Pustilnik

Posted on by Vanesa Aguay Guerra

Understanding how animals use space is a central question in movement ecology, and home range estimation is a key tool for answering it. Home ranges represent the areas an animal regularly uses to meet its biological needs, such as foraging, resting, and mating. Over time, ecologists have developed a variety of methods to estimate home Read more about Home (on the) ranges of pronghorn: The Brownian bridge movement model– Jeremy D. Pustilnik[…]

Keeping Track of Ungulate Trails— Jeremy D. Pustilnik

Posted on by Vanesa Aguay Guerra

At the end of the 20th century, scientists dissolved Ungulata. “Ungulata” was not a brand of dish soap or a chemical, rather, it was a taxonomic grouping that described “hoofed mammals.” Molecular evidence showed that elephants were only distantly related, and that whales were actually very closely related, to such animals as horses and cattle Read more about Keeping Track of Ungulate Trails— Jeremy D. Pustilnik[…]