Fig. 7

Example VeDBA changes with an animal’s track over different habitats. VeDBA is visualised on a colour gradient, with lower VeDBA values being denoted by lighter yellow colours and higher VeDBA values shown in dark purple. In this instance, the badger travelled from a recreational grassland area into a woodland area and back. Within the grass area, the apparently longer stretches of higher VeDBA (indicating increased activity-related energy expenditure) may relate to badgers travelling at speed and in a more direct path, whereas in the woodland area the GPS-enhanced dead-reckoned track is more tortuous