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The shape and size of badger family territories are associated with the location of underground shelters. Studies were conducted on badger sett systems within the monitoring area of “Gomilshanski lisy” National Nature Park. The QGIS program was used for data analysis and visualization. It was proposed to define a family territory by using the average nearest neighbor distance (ANND) between all setts of a sett system. ANND for four sett systems within the monitoring area of the Park are the following: 1 — 0,147 ± 0,086 km; 2 — 0,131 ± 0,087 km; 3 — 0,161 ± 0,120 km; 4 — 0,121 ± 0,079 km. Buffers around the point objects (setts) were built in QGIS by using the calculated distance. Buffers were united into a polygon, which represents the family territory. The area of family territory polygons for badger sett systems in the NNP “Gomilshanski lisy” are the following: 1 — 39.6 hectares, 2 — 48.9 hectares, 3 — 30.8 hectares, 4 — 54.1 hectares.
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