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Exhibit 4-7
Golden-rumped elephant shrews have long flexible snouts, used to overturn leaf-litter where they find their food: millipedes, insects and spiders. These animals are among the approximately 10% of mammalian species that mate for life. Just why these mammals are monogamous is poorly understood, and one theory is that a monogamous male would have to defend less territory from intrusion by other males. The home range of an animal, i.e. that area over which they typically travel, is a function of diet and energy consumption of the animal. The energy consumption is, in turn, typically a function of the animal's size. In a recent study, investigators reasoned that if monogamy was related in some way to the home territory, this should be detectable by comparing these animals to other insect-eating mammals. Data were gathered on 27 similar species and are presented in the table below. After fitting a straight line model,
, significant curvature was detected in the residual plot, and two transformed models were chosen for further analysis: the power and exponential models. The computer output for these transformed models and the residual plots follow.
Residual Plot and Statistical Analysis - exponential model
Log Home Range vs. Weight
Log(H) = 0.250 + 0.000231 W Residual Plot and Statistical Analysis - Power model
Log Home Range vs. Log Weight
Log(H) = −1.601 + 0.893Log(W)
-Refer to Exhibit 4-7.
For the exponential model, calculate the predicted log (Home Range) for a Weight of 1000g.
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