Home ranges and movement schedules of sympatric bridled nailtail and black-striped wallabies
In: Wildlife research, Band 23, Heft 5, S. 547
ISSN: 1448-5494, 1035-3712
Home ranges and movement schedules of sympatric bridled nailtail wallabies, Onychogalea fraenata, and
black-striped wallabies, Macropus dorsalis, were studied during wet and dry seasons by radio-tracking.
Home ranges of black-striped wallabies (91 ha) were much larger than those of bridled nailtail wallabies
(40 ha). Home-range size differed between sexes for bridled nailtail wallabies (males, 59 ha; females,
26 ha), but not for black-striped wallabies. Intraspecific seasonal differences in home-range size were not
significant. All home ranges included diurnal shelter habitat, although the preferred type of shelter habitat
was different for each species. Movement schedules differed significantly between wet and dry seasons for
black-striped wallabies (which made a higher frequency of longer-distance movements during the dry
season than during the wet season), but not for bridled nailtail wallabies.