Institute for Wildlife Conservation, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Páter Károly utca 1., 2100, Hungary.
Department of Wildlife Management, Ministry of Agriculture, Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 11, 1055, Hungary.
Biol Futur. 2020 Jun;71(1-2):39-51. doi: 10.1007/s42977-020-00010-y. Epub 2020 Apr 16.
In our study, we examined the movement of two wild boars marked with GPS/GSM transmitters in city of Budapest. We hypothesised that: the wild boars do not leave the urban area (H1); the wild boars prefer places that are less disturbed by people, and which are rich in potential hiding places (H2); and their home ranges would be smaller than that of wild boars living in non-urban environment (H3). Based on our results, we accepted our first hypothesis, as the wild boars had not left the area of Budapest. However, we partly rejected our second hypothesis: the wild boars preferred urban areas that were forested and richly covered with vegetation; however, human presence therefore disturbance was also high in those areas. The home range sizes of both marked wild boar sows were remarkably smaller than those of the wild boars living in natural environment (H3). City habitat modification, e.g. clearing undergrowth vegetation, could result that wild boars cannot find any hiding places. The significant part of food sources will disappear with the elimination of these places. By eliminating the two main factors together could prevent wild boars finding their living conditions within the city.
在我们的研究中，我们检查了两只带有 GPS/GSM 发射器的野猪在布达佩斯市的运动情况。我们假设：野猪不会离开城市区域（H1）；野猪更喜欢人迹罕至、有丰富潜在藏身之处的地方（H2）；它们的家域会比生活在非城市环境中的野猪小（H3）。根据我们的结果，我们接受了第一个假设，因为野猪没有离开布达佩斯地区。然而，我们部分地否定了我们的第二个假设：野猪更喜欢有森林和丰富植被覆盖的城市地区；然而，这些地区的人类存在和干扰也很高。两只标记野猪母猪的家域大小明显小于生活在自然环境中的野猪（H3）。城市栖息地的改变，例如清除灌木丛植被，可能导致野猪找不到任何藏身之处。这些地方的消失，会使食物来源的重要部分消失。通过同时消除这两个主要因素，可以防止野猪在城市中找到生存条件。
