home range

noun

: the area to which an animal usually confines its daily activities

Example Sentences

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Scientists had assumed that the adolescent puma wouldn’t stay in Griffith Park long, in part because its nine-square-mile area is about 6% of the size of a typical home range for big cats in the area. —Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022

But not before the bear prowls the perimeter of his home range. —National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023

The male mountain lion, one of several the park service tracks in the area, was captured Monday south of his home range of Griffith Park and transferred to a wild animal care facility for evaluation, the release said. —Taylor Romine, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022

Members will patrol the borders of their home range, and too much overlap can make neighboring groups get violent. —Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020

This suggests that before settling into a home range, males roam farther from where they were born. —Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2015

The thesis for her master’s degree at Claremont Graduate University required roaming the Inyo Mountains along four-wheel-drive dirt roads and hiking no-nonsense trails as part of an effort to map the extent of the daisy’s home range. —Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2022

Birds wandering out of their home range is a fairly common occurrence. —Marina Wang, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022

The Sahel, the massive buffer zone between the Sahara Desert and the African savannah to its south, became the home range of Berber and Bedouin camel herders. —Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above