Makala has Reached the Great Barrier Reef
8/3/2023 It has been over a month now since I last updated Makala activities. As it turns out, she has remained in the same home range area. Below is her track up to 8/1/23. 5/28/2023 Makala has remained in her home range habitat on the southern Great Barrier Reef. The video below highlights Makala's movements during the time period from 4/2/2023 to 5/26/2023. The trajectories are depicted as straight lines although the turtle actual tracks are usually anything but straight. After trajectory animation, I have calculated the kernel density utilization distributions for 95% and 50% utilization. This calculation means that statistically one could expect to find Makala within the boarder of the larger area 95% of the time and within the smaller area 50% of the time. These areas are quite small and indicates that there is sufficient food for Makala within that small area (95% KUD area = 0.56 sq. km, & 50% KUD area = 0.07 sq. km). The video shows ...