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Title: Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

Author: Donald W. Janes

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Vol. 10, No. 7, pp. 553-572, 4 pls., 3 figs.
May 4, 1959

Home Range and Movements
of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

By

DONALD W. JANES

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence
1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 10, No. 7, pp. 553-572, 4 pls., 3 figs.
Published May 4, 1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1959

Home Range and Movements
of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

By

DONALD W. JANES

INTRODUCTION

A knowledge of the home range and movements of the cottontail
(_Sylvilagus floridanus_) is one of the most important prerequisites
for estimating effectively its numbers and managing its populations. By
comparing results obtained from different methods, previously used, for
determining the size of the home range I have attempted to develop a
more valid procedure.

The study here reported upon was made on the University of Kansas
Natural History Reservation (Sec. 4, T. 12S, R. 20E), the
northeasternmost section of Douglas County, Kansas, approximately 6-1/2
miles north-northeast of the University campus at Lawrence. The
590-acre reservation, situated in the ecotone between the eastern
deciduous forests and the prairie of the Great Plains near the north
edge of the Kansas River Valley, has been protected as a "natural area"
since 1948 (Fitch, 1952). It consists of tree-covered slopes, and flat
grass-covered hilltops and valleys. Two limestone outcrops follow the
contours about five and 20 feet below the t