Using diel movement behavior to infer foraging strategies related to ecological and social factors in elephants

Table 1 Data summary for all female elephants with >2 years of tracking data from Save the Elephants’s tracking program

Individual	Relative rank	Start day	End day	Number of tracking days
M5	High	9-Jul-2001	14-Jan-2006	1371 (1273)
M35	High	11-Feb-2003	3-Jun-2005	775 (671)
M54	High	8-Jul-2001	25-Jun-2007	1447 (1310)
R28	High	9-Jul-2001	4-Apr-2004	527 (519)
M31	Mid	9-Feb-2001	9-Jan-2005	703 (689)
R22	Mid	25-Jan-2001	16-Mar-2003	739 (729)
M46	Low	13-Jan-2000	19-Jun-2003	544 (518)
R1	Low	17-Nov-2002	25-Jun-2007	1230 (1034)
M19	Variable*	10-Oct-2002	23-Oct-2005	854 (592)

The tracking day counts show days with at least 20 hours of successful location downloads and are the data used in the binning and smoothing spline based analyses, and counts shown in the parentheses are sample sizes for unique triplets of three consecutive days with at least 20 hours of successful location downloads used in the regression models. The relative ranks reflect that of the collared elephant’s matriarch. *M19’s matriarch died midway through the study.

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