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noun Ecology.

the area in which an animal normally lives.

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Origin of home range

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby home range

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How to use home range in a sentence

This creates situations where, for example, a species like the hog deer, a small deer native to South Asia, is endangered in its home range but hunted and treated as feral in Australia.
It’s time to stop demonizing “invasive” species|Marina Bolotnikova|November 28, 2021|Vox
By expanding our home range, we’re now able to extract more resources from our environment.
What Made Early Humans Smart - Issue 102: Hidden Truths|Kevin Berger|June 30, 2021|Nautilus
It’s almost as if these final tweaks made bipedalism even more efficient, and allowed us to travel greater distances, expand our home range.
What Made Early Humans Smart - Issue 102: Hidden Truths|Kevin Berger|June 30, 2021|Nautilus
A typical home range, therefore, seems to average no more than 75 feet in radius.
Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog|Henry S. Fitch

The home range of the coyote is rarely ten miles across, except on the margin of mountains where sometimes it is twice this.
Watched by Wild Animals|Enos A. Mills
An individual may, and usually does, alter its home range over periods of time.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana|Henry S. Fitch
The area within which routine daily movements are confined constitutes the home range, which is variable in size and shape.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana|Henry S. Fitch
The home range is thus somewhat three-dimensional; both trails and feeding places are often above ground.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana|Henry S. Fitch

British Dictionary definitions for home range

home range

noun

ecology the area in which an animal normally ranges

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