: the area to which an animal usually confines its daily activities
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The critters who drop in or call the space home range from monarch butterflies, ladybugs and lizards to hummingbirds and bushtits, skunks, opossums and even the occasional mountain lion.—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026 With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.—JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025 Like most large cats, jaguars require huge home ranges (50 to 180 km2 in the Amazon) – and the ability for young jaguars to disperse to new habitats to establish their own home ranges.—Jeff Opperman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 Panthers typically leave their mothers by age 2 and begin to establish their own home ranges, which can bring them into contact with roads and other development, biologists say.—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for home range