• Wildness as a science-policy bridge for a better world 

  Child, Matthew (University of Pretoria, 2024-03-27)

  The world is losing its wildness – in the form of both wilderness areas and the ecological functioning of wildlife populations. While most literature investigates this loss as the negative consequences for biodiversity ...
• Socio-economic factors correlating with illegal use of giraffe body parts 

  Muneza, Arthur B.; Amakobe, Bernard; Kasaine, Simon; Kramer, Daniel B.; Githiru, Mwangi; Roloff, Gary J.; Hayward, Matt W.; Montgomery, Robert A. (Cambridge University Press, 2023-07)

  Unsustainable hunting, both illegal and legal, has led to the extirpation of many species. In the last 35 years giraffe Giraffa spp. populations have declined precipitously, with extinctions documented in seven African ...
• Cheetah marking sites are also used by other species for communication : evidence from photographic data in a comparative setup 

  Edwards, Sarah; Mueller, Rebekka; Roeder, Ralf; Melzheimer, Joerg; Wachter, Bettina (Springer, 2022-08)

  Many mammalian species communicate via olfactory communication placed at particular locations. The majority of these studies focused on intraspecific communication. More recently, studies have also investigated interspecific ...
• Leopard Panthera pardus camera trap surveys in the arid environments of northern Namibia 

  Portas, Ruben; Wachter, Bettina; Beytell, Piet; Uiseb, Kenneth H.; Melzheimer, Joerg; Edwards, Sarah (Springer, 2022-08)

  In Namibia, leopards (Panthera pardus) are widely distributed, used commercially as trophy animals and are often persecuted for perceived or real predation on livestock and valuable game species outside protected areas. ...
• Assessment of leopard translocations in South Africa 

  McManus, Jeannine S.; Faraut, Lauriane; Couldridge, Vanessa; Van Deventer, Jaco; Samuels, Igshaan; Cilliers, Deon; Devens, C.H. (Carolyn); Vorster, Paul; Smuts, Bool (Frontiers Media, 2022-07-29)

  Translocations are commonly employed to mitigate human–carnivore conflict but rarely evaluated, resulting in conflicting reports of success, particularly for leopards (Panthera pardus). We evaluate the status of available ...
• Complex ways in which landscape conditions and risks affect human attitudes towards wildlife 

  Muneza, Arthur B.; Amakobe, Bernard; Kasaine, Simon; Kramer, Daniel B.; Githiru, Mwangi; Roloff, Gary J.; Hayward, Matt W.; Montgomery, Robert A. (Medknow Publications, 2022-10)

  Negative interactions between humans and wildlife (i.e. those presenting risks to human security or private property) can trigger retaliation and potential human-wildlife conflict (HWC). The nature and strength of these ...
• Implications of camera trap survey design and analytical methods for large carnivores estimates 

  Baird, Tristan Daniel (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  Globally, carnivores face countless threats; and in some cases, these threats are worsened by a lack of population data. In South Africa, conservation has become largely confined to small, fenced, protected areas. It is ...
• The inducible defences of large mammals to human lethality 

  Montgomery, Robert A.; Macdonald, David W.; Hayward, Matt W. (Wiley, 2020-12)

  In the process of avoiding predation, prey are faced with potentially fitness-compromising trade-offs that have implications for their survival and reproduction. The nature and strength of these non-consumptive effects at ...
• Influence of bushmeat poaching and pastoralism on African lion Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) ecology in rural Mozambique 

  Everatt, K.T. (Kristoffer) (University of Pretoria, 2013-10)

  The African lion, Panthera leo, has suffered dramatic population and range declines over the last few decades and is listed as Vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Quantification ...
• Rethinking megafauna 

  Moleon, Marcos; Sanchez-Zapata, Jose A.; Donazar, Jose A.; Revilla, Eloy; Martin-Lopez, Berta; Gutierrez-Canovas, Cayetano; Getz, Wayne Marcus; Morales-Reyes, Zebensui; Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa; Crowder, Larry B.; Galetti, Mauro; Gonzalez-Suarez, Manuela; He, Fengzhi; Jordano, Pedro; Lewison, Rebecca; Naidoo, Robin; Owen-Smith, Norman; Selva, Nuria; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Tella, Jose L.; Zarfl, Christiane; Jahnig, Sonja C.; Hayward, Matt W.; Faurby, Søren; Garcia, Nuria; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Tockner, Klement (The Royal Society, 2020)

  Concern for megafauna is increasing among scientists and non-scientists. Many studies have emphasized that megafauna play prominent ecological roles and provide important ecosystem services to humanity. But, what ...
• Hyena paleogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena 

  Westbury, Michael V.; Hartmann, Stefanie; Barlow, Axel; Preick, Michaela; Ridush, Bogdan; Nagel, Doris; Rathgeber, Thomas; Ziegler, Reinhard; Baryshnikov, Gennady; Sheng, Guilian; Ludwig, Arne; Wiesel, Ingrid; Dalen, Love; Bibi, Faysal; Werdelin, Lars; Heller, Rasmus; Hofreiter, Michael (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-03-13)

  The genus Crocuta (African spotted and Eurasian cave hyenas) includes several closely related extinct and extant lineages. The relationships among these lineages, however, are contentious. Through the generation ...
• Jobs, game meat and profits : the benefits of wildlife ranching on marginal lands in South Africa 

  Taylor, William Andrew; Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Nicholson, Samantha K.; Relton, Claire; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T. (Elsevier, 2020-05)

  The private wildlife sector in South Africa must demonstrate value in the face of political pressures for economic growth, job creation and food security. Through structured survey questionnaires of landowners and managers ...
• Unforeseen consequences of conservation management practices : case study on herding rhino as an anti‐poaching measure 

  Fabregas, María C.; Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Ganswindt, Andre; Bertschinger, Hendrik Jan; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney (Wiley, 2021-06)

  The current biodiversity crisis calls for effective conservation measures. However, some measures may have unforeseen negative consequences on individual species. Herding, a management practice currently used in some ...
• Vachellia erioloba dynamics over 38 years in the Kalahari Gemsbok national park, South Africa 

  Van der Merwe, Helga; Van Rooyen, Noel; Bezuidenhout, Hugo; Bothma, Jacobus du P.; Van Rooyen, Margaretha W. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-04)

  Vachellia erioloba is a keystone tree species in the southern Kalahari. This long-term study over nearly four decades tracks two populations in different landscapes (the interior sandy duneveld versus the clayey Nossob ...
• Midazolam alters acid-base status less than azaperone during the capture and transport of Southern White Rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum simum) 

  Pohlin, Friederike; Buss, Peter Erik; Hooijberg, Emma Henriette; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney (MDPI, 2020-07)

  Acidemia represents a major life-threatening factor during rhinoceros capture. The acid-base status during rhinoceros transport is unknown. The purpose of this study was to describe changes in acid-base status during ...
• Fear of the dark? A mesopredator mitigates large carnivore risk through nocturnality, but humans moderate the interaction 

  Haswell, Peter M.; Kusak, Josip; Jones, Katherine A.; Hayward, Matt W. (Springer, 2020-05)

  While constrained by endogenous rhythms, morphology and ecology, animals may still exhibit flexible activity patterns in response to risk. Temporal avoidance of interspecific aggression can enable access to resources ...
• Functional morphology of the ankle extensor muscle‐tendon units in the springhare Pedetes capensis shows convergent evolution with macropods for bipedal hopping locomotion 

  Veiga, Gabriela N.; Biewener, Andrew A.; Fuller, Andrea; Van de Ven, Tanja M.F.N.; McGowan, Craig P.; Panaino, Wendy; Snelling, Edward P. (Wiley, 2020-09)

  This study assesses the functional morphology of the ankle extensor muscle‐tendon units of the springhare Pedetes capensis, an African bipedal hopping rodent, to test for convergent evolution with the Australian bipedal ...
• Lions at the gates : trans-disciplinary design of an early warning system to improve human-lion coexistence 

  Weise, Florian Johannes; Hauptmeier, Helmut; Stratford, Ken J.; Hayward, Matt W.; Aal, Konstantin; Heuer, Marcus; Tomeletso, Mathata; Wulf, Volker; Somers, Michael J.; Stein, Andrew B. (Frontiers Media, 2019-01-25)

  Across Africa, lions (Panthera leo) are heavily persecuted in anthropogenic landscapes. Trans-disciplinary research and virtual boundaries (geofences) programmed into GPS-tracking transmitters offer new opportunities to ...
• Will systematic reviews facilitate translational behavioral ecology? With a few conditions: a comment on Berger-Tal et al. 

  Griffin, Andrea S.; Hayward, Matt W. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  No abstract available.
• Neutralizing antibodies against Rift Valley fever virus in wild antelope in far northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, indicate recent virus circulation 

  Van den Bergh, Carien; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Swanepoel, Robert; Hanekom, Catharine C.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (Wiley, 2020-05)

  Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic viral disease of domestic ruminants in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula caused by a mosquito‐borne Phlebovirus. Outbreaks in livestock and humans occur after heavy rains favour breeding ...

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