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Table 1 Distances and trends of movements by Western Rattlesnakes radio-tracked from ten hibernacula in British Colombia (2010 and 2011). The movements of snakes originating at the same den were considered ‘Directional’ if all snakes tracked from the hibernaculum travelled trajectories within a 40° range of each other and ‘Random’ if the trajectories ranged over more the 40°. The ruggedness index was calculated for an area surrounding each hibernaculum using Relative Topographic position. Means are reported ±1 standard deviation, unless otherwise stated

From: Rattlesnake migrations and the implications of thermal landscapes

Region

Code name, Hibernacula

Number of study snakes

Mean maximum straight-line distance (m)

Movement directionality1

Destination habitat types (number of study snakes)

Ruggedness Index1

Thompson-Nicola

TN1

3

2165 ± 554.0

Directional

Forest (3)

76.3

TN2

1

1478

n/a

Open (1)

60.5

TN3

3

1908 ± 200.1

Directional

Open (3)

38.1

TN4

4

2822 ± 1180.1

Directional

Forest (4)

62.9

TN5

2

1293 ± 42.9

Random

Open (2)

58.4

TN6

3

1854 ± 966.5

Random

Forest (2); Open (1)

43.4

Okanagan-Similkameen

OS1

4

1062 ± 574.1

Random

Open (4)

74.8

OS2

3

738 ± 481.7

Random

Forest (1); Open (2)

45.7

OS3

3

2420 ± 841.8

Random

Forest (2); Open (1)

68.0

OS4

4

2143 ± 1018.1

Directional

Forest (3); Open (1)

58.8