The effect of rut and hunting activity on movement in female moose with and without calves

• Main Author: Fritz, Johanna
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: jakt; elg; elgjakt; aktivitetsmønster; bevegelsesmønster; Alces alces; forstyrrelser; predator; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Zoogeography: 486; Norway; Lone; Jakta
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/132211

Moose (Alces alces) in Norway are exposed to intensive hunting pressure each autumn. Besides the rut, already an energetically costly period of the year, we may expect disturbance to moose by hunters to trigger anti-predator behavior that results in different movement rates and activity ranges in co...