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Old 05-05-2009, 05:09 PM   #366
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Originally Posted by dissentowner View Post
Yes it is and I'll educate you on why. With the exception of moving to find a mate or food these type of animals are hardly active at all. If these animals in the wild had their food and breeding mates always showing up at one spot where they were they would never move.
What an assumption. They don't move a lot in captivity because they are fed food and mating partners therefore this replicates their behaviour in the wild.

Of course they would. There would be numerous other ecological factors in play.

Prey abundance and dispersal, predation, competition (intra and interspecific), density dependance, off spring dispersal, ideal free distribution .......
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