• Synchronized shift of oral, faecal and urinary microbiotas in bats and natural infection dynamics during seasonal reproduction 

  Dietrich, Muriel; Kearney, Teresa; Seamark, E.C.J. (Ernest); Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Markotter, Wanda (Royal Society Publishing, 2018)

  Seasonal reproduction is a period of extreme physiological and behavioural changes, yet we know little about how it may affect host microbial communities (i.e. microbiota) and pathogen transmission. Here, we investigated ...
• Animal taxa contrast in their scale-dependent responses to land use change in rural Africa 

  Foord, Stefan Hendrik; Swanepoel, Lourens Hendrik; Evans, Steven William; Schoeman, Colin Stefan; Erasmus, Barend Frederik N.; Schoeman, M. Corrie; Keith, Mark; Smith, Alain; Mauda, Evans Vusani; Maree, Naudene; Nembudani, Nkhumeleni; Dippenaar-Schoeman, Anna Sophia; Munyai, Thinandavha Caswell; Taylor, Peter John (Public Library of Science, 2018-05-08)

  Human-dominated landscapes comprise the bulk of the world's terrestrial surface and Africa is predicted to experience the largest relative increase over the next century. A multi-scale approach is required to identify ...
• Changes in African elephant (Loxodonta africana) faecal steroid concentrations post-defaecation 

  Webber, Judith T.; Henley, Michelle D.; Pretorius, Yolanda; Somers, Michael J.; Ganswindt, Andre (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-06-12)

  BACKGROUND : Faecal hormone metabolite measurement is a widely used tool for monitoring reproductive function and response to stressors in wildlife. Despite many advantages of this technique, the delay between defaecation, ...
• Size, shape and maintenance matter : a critical appraisal of a global carnivore conflict mitigation strategy – livestock protection kraals in northern Botswana 

  Weise, Florian J.; Hayward, Matt W.; Aguirre, Rocky Casillas; Tomeletso, Mathata; Gadimang, Phemelo; Somers, Michael J.; Stein, Andrew B. (Elsevier, 2018-09)

  Fortified kraals are predator-proof enclosures designed to protect livestock at night. Globally, they show great promise in reducing depredation by carnivores, thus promoting co-existence with people. Their efficacy depends ...
• Fear, foraging and olfaction : how mesopredators avoid costly interactions with apex predators 

  Haswell, Peter M.; Jones, Katherine A.; Kusak, Josip; Hayward, Matt W. (Springer Verlag, 2018-07)

  Where direct killing is rare and niche overlap low, sympatric carnivores may appear to coexist without conflict. Interference interactions, harassment and injury from larger carnivores may still pose a risk to smaller ...
• Local ecological knowledge and community-based management of wildlife resources : a study of the Mumbwa and Lupande Game Management areas of Zambia 

  Milupi, I.D. (Inonge); Somers, Michael J.; Ferguson, J. Willem H. (Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa, 2017-12)

  The aim of this study was to investigate the scope of local ecological knowledge (LEK) in the Lupande and Mumbwa Game Management Areas (GMAs) of Zambia and to assess the extent to which such knowledge has been used in ...
• Humans as predators : an overview of predation strategies of hunters with contrasting motivational drivers 

  Dalerum, Fredrik; Swanepoel, Lourens H. (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2017)

  Predator-prey theory suggests that generalist predators are linked to demographic stability of prey whereas specialists are destabilizing. We overview the demographic consequences of different predation strategies and ...
• The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia : Chiroptera) 

  Van Cakenberghe, Victor; Gembu Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin; Musaba Akawa, Prescott; Seamark, E.C.J. (Ernest); Verheyen, Erik (Consortium of European Natural History Museums, 2017)

  In 1966, Robert William Hayman, Xavier Misonne and Walter Verheyen published their listing of the Congolese, Rwandan and Burundian bat specimens in the collections in the museums of Tervuren, Brussels, Geneva, London ...
• Socio-economic factors influencing attitudes of landowners towards free-roaming cheetahs 

  Page-Nicholson, Samantha K.; Marnewick, Kelly A.; Beverley, Grant; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T.; Watermeyer, Jessica P.; Parker, Dan M. (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2017-10)

  The largest area of the South African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) distribution occurs outside formally protected areas, making cheetahs vulnerable to conflict-related killings. This conflict is assumed to be related to ...
• A review of community-based natural resource management 

  Milupi, I.D. (Inonge); Somers, Michael J.; Ferguson, J. Willem H. (Levente Hufnagel (ALOKI Kft.), 2017)

  Please read abstract in article.
• Sustainable rhino horn production at the pointy end of the rhino horn trade debate 

  Taylor, Andrew; Balfour, Dave; Brebner, Diane Kirsty; Coetzee, Rynette; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T.; Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Shaw, Jo; 't Sas-Rolfes, Michael (Elsevier, 2017-12)

  African rhino populations are under severe threat from poachers, who kill rhinos to obtain horn for illegal trade. Over the 9-year period between 2008 and 2016, an estimated 7124 rhinos were poached in Africa, with the ...
• Dancing to the message : African clawless otter scent marking behaviour 

  Jordaan, Rowan Keith; Somers, Michael J.; McIntyre, Trevor (Associazione Teriologica Italiana, 2017-09-04)

  Latrine use and behaviour at latrines have been studied in numerous otter species, but not African clawless otters, Aonyx capensis. We set up trail cameras at two latrines near Dullstroom, South Africa. On several ...
• The impact of age-class and social context on fecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in free-ranging male giraffes 

  Wolf, T.E. (Tanja); Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Burroughs, R.E.J. (Richard); Ganswindt, Andre (Elsevier, 2018-01)

  One of the primary sources of perceived stress is the social environment of an animal and the interactions with conspecifics. An essential component of the response to a stressor is the activation of the hypothalamic–pit ...
• Effects of culverts and roadside fencing on the rate of roadkill of small terrestrial vertebrates in northern Limpopo, South Africa 

  Collinson, Wendy J.; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T.; Davies-Mostert, Warwick (University of Cambridge, 2017)

  We tested the effectiveness of low-level roadside fencing to direct wildlife towards existing culverts beneath the road (underpasses) in order to reduce road deaths of small terrestrial vertebrates. While our results showed ...
• A review of camera trapping for conservation behaviour research 

  Caravaggi, Anthony; Banks, Peter B.; Burton, A. Cole; Finlay, Caroline M.V.; Hayward, Matt W.; Rowcliffe, Marcus J.; Wood, Mike D. (Wiley Open Access, 2017)

  An understanding of animal behaviour is important if conservation initiatives are to be effective. However, quantifying the behaviour of wild animals presents significant challenges. Remote-sensing camera traps are ...
• Veldtipes, verspreiding van die groter soogdiere, en enkele aspekte van die ekologie van Kaokoland 

  Viljoen, Philippus Jacobus (University of Pretoria, 1980)

  Initiated in 1975, the purpose of this study was to obtain basic ecological information needed for the conservation, management and utilization of the fauna and flora of Kaokoland, S.W.A. Accordingly the vegetation of ...
• Tracking data from nine free-roaming Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) collared in the Thabazimbi area, Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Marnewick, Kelly; Page-Nicholson, Samantha; Roxburgh, Lizanne; Somers, Michael J. (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-02-23)

  BACKGROUND : In partnership with the University of Pretoria, the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Carnivore Conservation Programme collared six male and three female free-roaming Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Thabazimbi ...
• Factors affecting the prey preferences of jackals (Canidae) 

  Hayward, Matt W.; Porter, Laura; Lanszki, Jozsef; Kamler, Jan F.; Beck, Jacalyn M.; Kerley, Graham I.H.; Macdonald, David W.; Montgomery, Robert A.; Parker, Dan M.; Scott, Dawn M.; O'Brien, John; Yarnell, Richard W. (Elsevier, 2017-07)

  Prey selection by carnivores can be affected by top-down and bottom-up factors. For example, large carnivores may facilitate food resources for mesocarnivores by providing carcasses to scavenge, however mesocarnivores may ...
• Conservation implications of brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) population densities and distribution across landscapes in Botswana 

  Winterbach, Christiaan W.; Maude, Glyn; Neo-Mahupeleng, Gosiame; Klein, Rebecca; Boast, Lorraine; Rich, Lindsey N.; Somers, Michael J. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-05-23)

  The brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) is endemic to southern Africa. The largest population of this near-threatened species occurs in Botswana, but limited data were available to assess distribution and density. Our ...
• Aspects of the syntaxonomy and synecology of the grasslands of southern KwaZulu-Natal 

  Perkins, Luke (University of Pretoria, 1997)

  The Grassland biome of South Africa is ofmajor importance to this country's agriculture, mining and conservation practices. The extent of urbanisation and economic activity within this biome has led to the destruction ...

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