What is a "home range"

[G. Spillard]

I read on that on the dev diary, "Tiger territory encompasses 16 distinct home ranges," and "Throughout Sundarpatan, there will be 16 home ranges with one Bengal Tiger living in each. That means, only 16 Bengal Tigers will be on the map at the same time" on the wiki.

I'm confused on what that entails- is there a certain radius which a single Bengal Tiger exists on the map? Say if I were waiting near a water source, does this mean only one tiger will use it?
In short, can I stop waiting for another tiger to show up lol

[florble mcfumperdink]

It means that each tiger basically has its own territory and that some of them may occasionally overlap.

[DarkFalz]

Finter did a pretty nice guide on the tigers that clears all this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvH2PEZXSM

[Sunic]

homestay quest bugged? for me at least.

[Ms O'Horné]

Look up lady legends guide on tigers on Youtube. She explains it pretty well and how to abuse/exploit that information.

[Findus]

Home ranges, as I understand them, are permanent, unique, not overlapping areas on the map, in which all need zones of one or more animal (herds) are placed.
In the case of the tiger, it's probably just one animal at a time (if we take the devs at their word) and since the tiger supposedly is hunting the player, it might be more mobile than simply traveling from need zone to need zone, or its hunting need zone is bigger, or maybe it has just super senses.

Originally posted by Lynx that Stynx:

I'm confused on what that entails- is there a certain radius which a single Bengal Tiger exists on the map? Say if I were waiting near a water source, does this mean only one tiger will use it?
In short, can I stop waiting for another tiger to show up lol

While the first part is true (only that it's not a circular radius, but irregular area) the second doesn't follow, as several home ranges can meet at a body of water. Like the east side can be part of one home range and the west side part of a second one and the south side part of a third.
At the same time, when you kill a tiger at its drinking zone, there is no guarantee it will respawn at the same lake as there are also usually several lakes or other bodies of water in a home range.

To make things more complicated, home range is sometimes also used by players to refer to the whole range on the map where a species can occur.

[G. Spillard]

Originally posted by DarkFalz:

Finter did a pretty nice guide on the tigers that clears all this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvH2PEZXSM

This is so incredibly helpful- I don't usually watch CoTW creators so I had no idea this was addressed!! Thank you so much!