Table 1.
Ethogram of the behaviours observed.
Fig 1.
a-b. Distance travelled (cm, mean+SE) and Standard deviation of distance travelled by goats at the three different densities (Fig 1a) and during the different periods of pregnancy (Fig 1b).
Superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.05) between densities (Fig 1a) or between periods (Fig 1b).
Table 2.
F- and P-values for the following fixed effects: Density, Period of pregnancy, Time of day and their interactions and their impacts on spatial variables: Distance travelled, Nearest neighbour distance and Furthest neighbour distance.
Fig 2.
a-b. Nearest neighbour distance (cm, mean+SE) by goats at the three different densities during the different times of the day (Fig 2a) and the three periods of gestation (Fig 2b) and Superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.05) between times of the day (Fig 2a) and periods within treatment (Fig 2b).
Fig 3.
a-b. Furthest neighbour distance (cm, mean+SE) and individual variation on furthest neighbour distance by goats at the three different densities (Fig 3a) and during the different periods of pregnancy (Fig 3b).
Superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.05) between densities (Fig 3a) or between periods within densities (Fig 3b).
Table 3.
Observed occurrences of the different behaviours (mean±SE) and effects of the tested factors on activity budget.
Fig 4.
Feeding frequencies (percentage of observed frequencies out of total observation times).
Superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.05) between times of day within periods of gestation.
Fig 5.
Resting frequencies (percentage of observed frequencies out of total observation times).
Superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.05) between periods of gestation within time of day.