buffalo: African buffalo GPS dataset from Kruger National Park, South...

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African buffalo GPS dataset from Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Description

GPS data on six African buffalo. When using this dataset, please cite the original article by Getz et al (2007) and the Movebank data package (Cross et al, 2016).

Usage

data("buffalo")

Format

A list of 6 telemetry objects.

Note

In ctmm v0.3.2 the erroneous location fix 606 was removed from buffalo[[4]] "Pepper".

References

W. M. Getz, S. Fortmann-Roe, P. C. Cross, A. J. Lyons, S. J. Ryan, C. C. Wilmers. LoCoH: Nonparameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions. PLoS ONE 2:2, e207 (2007).

P. C. Cross, J. A. Bowers, C. T. Hay, J. Wolhuter, P. Buss, M. Hofmeyr, J. T. du Toit, W. M. Getz. Data from: Nonparameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions. Movebank Data Repository. DOI:10.5441/001/1.j900f88t (2016).

See Also

as.telemetry, plot.telemetry, coati, gazelle, jaguar, pelican, turtle, wolf.

Examples

# Load package and data
library(ctmm)
data("buffalo")

# Extract movement data for a single animal
Cilla <- buffalo$Cilla

# Plot all sampled locations
plot(Cilla)

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