Cautious explorers: comparing movement patterns of wild and rewilded solitary predators
Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Luciano Atzeni, Jose-Antonio Hernandez Blanco, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Maria D. Chistopolova, Alexander N. Minaev, N. A. Dronova, Пхитиков Алим Бесланович, Kaveh Hobeali, P. I. Weinberg, Sergey A. Trepet, Paul J. Johnson, David Whyte Macdonald
This study compares movement patterns of rewilded and wild Persian leopards, finding rewilded leopards spend more time ranging and less time encamped, move slower, and have larger displacement.
bioRxiv · Oct 15, 2025 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition