Table 1 Comparison of the overall ranging behaviours of the five Mbendjele women and the five female Taï chimpanzees (above) and the off-trail trajectories analysed in the models of travel linearity and speed (below).
|  | Mbendjele people (Ndays = 236) | Taï chimpanzees (Ndays = 274) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
on-trail travels | off-trail travels | ||||
|  | Mbendjele people (Noff-trail trajectories = 251) | Taï chimpanzees (Noff-trail trajectories = 626) | |||
Median daily travel distance (km) | 3.93(range: 0.27–13.71) | 0.42(range: 0.00–5.23) | 4.03(range: 1.11–14.16) | ||
Median walking speed (m/s) | 0.76(range: 0.06–2.05) | 0.32(range: 0.01–2.84) | 0.42(range: 0.07–7.28) | ||
Seasonal range size (km2) | MCP 100 | 30.41 | 38.65 | ||
Kernel | 95% | 14.67 | 27.61 | ||
50% | 1.54 | 6.40 | |||
Median linearity1 | 0.87 (range: 0.42–0.99) | 0.85 (range: 0.11–0.99) | |||
Median travel speed (m/s)1 | 0.32 (range: 0.06–0.86) | 0.44 (range: 0.02–1.10) | |||
Median length of trajectories (m)1 | 101 (range: 10–584) | 135 (range: 16–1144) | |||
Median familiarity value of analysed trajectories (minutes) | 2.06 (range: 0.34–112.62) | 2.28 (range: 0.27–126.91) | |||
Median foraging group size | 5 (range: 1–16) | 4 (range: 1–21) | |||
Median age of the oldest individual in a foraging group | 37 (range: 25–76) | 40 (range: 29–52) | |||
