Hours of the day
Another variable that has an effect on the habitat use activities of the
identified species is the time zones. Although most wild mammals are
active at night or in the dark, temporal analyzes show that there are
exceptions (Figure 7).
Figure 7. The number of determined species depending on the time of day.
It is seen that the daily activities of the detected species start to
increase from 17.00, continue to increase all night, and after 07.00
their activities begin to decrease and reach the lowest level during the
day. By dividing the total of 3,730 records, which is the total of
records of each 24 hours, by 24, the hourly recording average during the
study period was calculated as 155. A total of 2,741 views were made
between 19:00 and 06:00, when the species are most active and
approximately half of the day. The average number of recordings in this
hour range has account to be 249 (2,741/11). This value is well above
the is 24-hour average of 155. It is clear evidence that these species
are more active at night. Although there is a parallelism in the hourly
activities of all species, it is striking that the daytime activities of
boars, grey wolves and red deer are more than other species. Especially
in the daytime activities of grey wolve and boar, the prey-predator
connection has draw attention here as well. On the other hand, between
12:00 and 14:00 is the period when the number of species is the least.
Brown bear, Eorasian lynx, European badger, wild cat, European hare,
Eurasian otter and jungel cat are the species with less than 3 records
between 08.00-17.00.
Bu durum Sokak et. almak. (2015), gün ortası sıcaklığının, özellikle
yiyecek arama ihtiyaçlarına dayalı olarak, vahşi hayvanların habitat
seçiminde termoregülatör ihtiyaçlara davranışsal bir tepki olarak
değerlendirmiştir. Günün saatlerine bağlı olarak değişen derecelerde
sıcaklık vahşi hayvanlar üzerinde stres yaratır ve buna karşı vahşi
hayvanlar günlük aktivitelerinde değişikliklere giderler. Aksi takdirde,
saatlik sıcaklığa bağlı olarak birçok türde habitat tercihlerinde
değişiklikler meydana gelebilir. Bu, vahşi hayvanların gündüz
aktivitelerinin seçiminde bir faktör olarak görünmektedir.