Sex-specific movement ecology of the shortest-lived tetrapod during the mating season… Labord’s chameleon (Furcifer labordi) …

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Chameleon Queen
“Radio-tracking and observations of 21 females and 18 males revealed that females exhibit high site fidelity, move small cumulative and linear distances, have low corresponding dispersal ratios and small occurrence distributions. In contrast, males moved larger distances in less predictable fashion, resulting in dispersal ratios and occurrence distributions 7–14 times larger than those of females, and males also had greater ranges of their vertical distribution. ”…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14156-3
 
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