How can I create territories for several groups of agents in netlogo? - netlogo

Question

I'm very new to Netlogo, and this is my very first post in a forum.
I need to create animal agent groups which move in habitats or territories. The territories can overlap. More precisely I need male agents that move in different territories and several groups of female agents which move in other territories.
This is what I did so far. I created a territory just for one group of females and one group of males. Thats not exactly what I need.
globals [fragments]
breed [preys prey]
breed [femaletigers femaletiger]
breed [kids kid]
breed [maletigers maletiger]
turtles-own
[
energy
age
gender
territory
]
to setup
clear-all
setup-fragments
;setup-habitats
setup-turtles
reset-ticks
end
to setup-fragments
ask patches[set pcolor 67]
repeat 50
[
ask one-of patches
[
set pcolor brown
repeat 30
[
let a random 360
let b random 5
ask patch-at-heading-and-distance a b
[
ask neighbors [ set pcolor brown]
set pcolor brown
]
]
]
]
end
to setup-turtles
set-default-shape femaletigers "default" ; default shape (dreieck)
create-femaletigers 10
[
set color red
set size 1.5
set energy 100
set age random 20
set gender "female"
set territory patches-in-territory patch 10 6 15
move-to one-of territory with [pcolor = 67 ] ; tigers start in territory but not on fragmented areas
]
set-default-shape maletigers "default" ; default shape (dreieck)
create-maletigers 10
[
set color blue
set size 1.5
set energy random 100
set age random 20
set gender "male"
set territory patches-in-territory patch 40 15 10
move-to one-of territory with [pcolor = 67 ] ; tigers start in territory but not on fragmented areas
]
set-default-shape preys "circle"
create-preys 100
[
move-to one-of patches with [pcolor = 67] ;preys don't start in fragmented areas
set color 114
set size 0.75
]
end
to-report patches-in-territory [Center rd]
let ptr []
ask Center [set ptr patches in-radius 20]
report ptr
end
I'm thankful for any help.
Maria

Answer 1

welcome to Stack Overflow. When posting on here, in general you will be better served by restricting your code to just the bare minimum needed to demonstrate your issue (see the MCVE guidelines here); for example you could remove your to-report, prey breeds, etc just to make it very obvious what you're trying to solve.
I'm not following your code exactly as I'm not sure of some of your overall goal- instead I give an alternative example that will hopefully illustrate one way to accomplish what you're after. I'll show an example of territories that can overlap for females in this example and of territories that cannot overlap, for males in this example. Using these variables and setup:
breed [ femaletigers femaletiger ]
breed [ maletigers maletiger ]
turtles-own [ territory ]
patches-own [ maleclaimed? ]
to setup
ca
ask patches [
set maleclaimed? false
]
create-maletigers 3 [
set shape "triangle"
set size 1.5
move-to one-of patches with [ maleclaimed? = false ]
pd
set territory patches in-radius 5 with [ maleclaimed? = false ]
ask territory [
set maleclaimed? true
]
]
create-femaletigers 3 [
set shape "square"
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
pd
set territory patches in-radius 3
hatch 1 + random 3 [
rt random 360
fd 1
]
]
reset-ticks
end
In the setup, the patches-own boolean indicates if a patch has been claimed by a male- set it to false to start so that a male can check, as it sets up its territory, whether a patch is already claimed or not. Tigers then set up their territories similar to how you did, except males will not select territory from another male. Females set up their territory then hatch a few more females that will share the territory of the "mother".
To move within their territory, just restrict turtles such that they can only move to one of their territory patches- here is one way to do that:
to go
ask turtles [
let target one-of territory in-radius 1.5
if target != nobody [
face target
fd 1
]
]
tick
end
If you want to confirm that the turtles stay within a territory, run something like:
to territory-check
ask turtles [
let col color + 2 + random 3
ask territory [
set pcolor col
]
]
end

Answer 2

Thanks again. What is when the tigers reproduce and I want their kids to create a new territoy and the territories should not overlap?
to move-male
ask maletigers [
let target1 one-of territory in-radius 2
if target1 != nobody [
face target1
fd 1]]
end
to reproduce-tiger
if age >= 48 and any? maletigers-on patch-here and pcolor = 67 [
hatch random 1 + random (5 - 1) [
set gender one-of [ "male" "female" ]
set breed kids
fd random-float 2 ]]
end
to search-territory-male
ask maletigers with [ territory = nobody ] [
if maleclaimed? = false [
set territory patches in-radius 18 with [ maleclaimed? = false ]
ask territory [ set maleclaimed? true ]]]
end