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Spatial behavior of northern flying squirrels in the same social network

dc.contributor.authorDiggins, Corinne A.en
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.departmentFish and Wildlife Conservationen
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-16T15:58:03Zen
dc.date.available2021-07-16T15:58:03Zen
dc.date.issued2021-05en
dc.description.abstractNorth American flying squirrels (Glaucomys spp.) are social species that communally den and exhibit home range overlap. However, observations on home range overlap tend to come from live-trapped individuals and it is unknown whether overlap occurs among individuals belonging to the same social network. Since flying squirrels communally den with familiar individuals, their use of artificial nest boxes allows for the radio-collaring and tracking of squirrels within the same social network. We captured and radio-collared northern flying squirrels (G. sabrinus Shaw) found communally denning in nest boxes in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. We tracked squirrels captured from the same nest box (i.e., nest box groups) to determine home range overlap and subsequent den sharing between familiar individuals within those nest box groups. We found that amount of home range overlap did not differ between male-male, male-female, and female-female dyads, indicating that non-reproductive females and scrotal males are not territorial at the 95% or 50% home range level. Regardless of sex, all dyads had a significantly higher probability of home range overlap (PHR) at the 95% than the 50% home range level (i.e., overlap between squirrels decreases in core areas of their home range). We also found flying squirrels subsequently denned with familiar individuals during 20.9% of occasions post-collaring. Our study provides important information for understanding space use within flying squirrel social networks. Further work should be conducted to determine space use between familiar individuals including seasonal shifts in space use, degree of individual relatedness, and potential territoriality in females denning with young up to and following juvenile dispersal.en
dc.description.adminPublic domain – authored by a U.S. government employeeen
dc.description.notesU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission; National Park Service; West Virginia Division of Highways, Grant/Award Number: T699-FLY/SQ-1.00; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Pittman-Robertson, Grant/Award Number: W-66-R-1; US Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species Recovery Implementation, Grant/Award Number: F11AC01265; National Park Service Southern Appalachian Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit, Grant/Award Number: P12AC13175en
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceUS Fish & Wildlife Service; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission; National Park Service; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Pittman-Robertson [W-66-R-1]; US Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species Recovery Implementation [F11AC01265]; National Park Service Southern Appalachian Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit [P12AC13175]; West Virginia Division of Highways [T699-FLY/SQ-1.00]; Grants-in-Aid for Scientific ResearchMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) [11F01701] Funding Source: KAKENen
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13130en
dc.identifier.eissn1439-0310en
dc.identifier.issn0179-1613en
dc.identifier.issue5en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104187en
dc.identifier.volume127en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsPublic Domainen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/en
dc.subjectcommunal denningen
dc.subjectGlaucomys sabrinusen
dc.subjecthome range overlapen
dc.subjectnest boxesen
dc.subjectsocial speciesen
dc.titleSpatial behavior of northern flying squirrels in the same social networken
dc.title.serialEthologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.dcmitypeStillImageen

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