The straight line distances traveled between consecutive weekly locations (called the "net weekly distances") showed a similar variation (table 3). The maximum net weekly distance for each wolf varied from 4.6 miles for 1059 to 49.0 for 1055, with means ranging from 2.9 to 15.6 miles for the same wolves. No doubt 1059's net weekly distances were relatively short because her total range and that of her pack were much smaller than those of the other wolves. It is difficult to obtain comparable measures of the extent of the ranges covered by each of the radiotagged wolves because their patterns of travel varied so much. Thus the figures given in table 5 should be regarded only as gross indicators of the minimum range of each animal. The area figures are especially deceiving in the case of 1055, for she had a horseshoe-shaped range, much of which apparently was not used. _Table 3.--Straight line distances (miles) between consecutive locations of radiotagged wolves_ #: _Number_ %: _Percent_ ---------------------------------------------------:---------------------------- : : Net weekly : Net daily distances : distances :----------------------------------------------:---------------------------- : : : : :Mean net : : : : : : : : :distance : : : : : Days :Days no : Days :Mean net:per day : :Weeks:Mean net: Wolf: data : net :movement:distance:excluding :Range:data :distance: Range # :obtained:movement: :per day :days of no: : :per week: : : : : :movement : : : : :--------:--------:--------:--------:----------:-----:-----:--------:------- : # : # % : # % : Miles : Miles :Miles: # : Miles : Miles 1051 54 13 24 41 76 2.0 2.6 0.0-12.0 22 12.7 1.0-46.0 1053 37 20 54 17 46 1.0 2.1 0.0-5.0 23 6.3 0.0-23.6 1055 46 7 15 39 85 2.9 3.6 0.0-12.8 21 15.6 1.7-49.0 1057 29 11 38 18 62 1.0 1.5 0.0-4.5 15 4.6 0.0-31.0 1059 26 1 4 25 96 2.5 2.6 0.0-5.6 18 2.9 0.0-4.6 ----:--------:--------:--------:--------:----------:-----:-----:--------:------- Nevertheless, one major piece of information is obvious from the figures: 1059's pack of five wolves had a much smaller range than any of the other uninjured animals--approximately 43 square miles when figured by the minimum-area method (Mohr 1947). The next smallest range was that of 1051 (excluding the area of his later dispersal--see below), which was some seven times the size of the pack's range. _Table 4.--Straight line distances (miles) traveled between consecutive days ("net daily distance") by radiotagged wolves in northeastern Minnesota during February 1969_