Diploma thesis investigate the circadiurnal use of feeding sites by wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) in north-eastern Slovenia. Research was carried out in Upper Savinja Valley on south-eastern edge of Kamnik - Savinja Alps, on two Karst plateau: Menina mountain and Dobrovlje on altitude 500 to 1100 meters. We monitored wild boars with cameras on seven feeding sites in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Monitoring at individual sites lastem from four to forty-two days. On the base of collected data we established their 24 - hour activity. We recorded 96 recording with wild boars present which together lasted 95 hours and 57 minutes. Wild boars were on feeding places from minimal one minute to a maximum of three hours and 50 minutes, in average the time was 61 minutes. Collected data demonstrates that wild boars visit feeding places mostly at night. On full moon they were on feeding sites less time and they were avoiding the clearings. Feeding sites were mostly visited by female wild boars with youngs and/or yearlings without old male or just yearlings of both sexes.
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