Arctic hare Alert - Argos tracking

• Main Author: Berteaux, Dominique
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Movebank Data Repository 2021
• Subjects: animal migration; animal movement; animal tracking; Arctic hare; Argos; Lepus arcticus; satellite telemetry; Arctic; Berteaux; Caron; Lake Hazen; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.d5d912c4/1; https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1355

Lai S, Desjardins É, Caron-Carrier J, Couchoux C, Vézina F, Tam A, Koutroulides N, Berteaux D. 2022. Unsuspected mobility of Arctic hares revealed by longest journey ever recorded in a lagomorph. Ecology. e3620. doi:10.1002/ecy.3620 : Lagomorphs (pikas, rabbits and hares) are small to medium-sized herbivores that occupy diverse habitats across all continents except Antarctica. Lagomorph movements are usually limited to natal dispersal, performed over relatively short distances (< 1 to 35 km). Here, we report the longest travel ever documented in a lagomorph, an Arctic hare Lepus arcticus, tracked during a project characterizing large-scale movements in the Canadian High Arctic using Argos satellite telemetry. From her Alert departure to her settlement near Lake Hazen, she traveled a minimum cumulative distance of 388 km over 49 days. This long-distance movement reveals unprecedented mobility capacities in this mammalian order.