Eco‐tourism and human–wildlife interaction can lead to increases in stress, vigilance and aggression in many species, however, studies investigating wildlife viewing are scarce. We present the first study investigating the ...
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, ...
CONTEXT : Wildlife tourism has been shown to increase stress in a variety of species and can negatively affect individuals’ survival, reproduction, welfare, and behaviour. In African elephants Loxodonta africana increased ...
Van der Waal, Cornelis; De Kroon, Hans; Van Langevelde, Frank; De Boer, Willem; Heitkönig, Ignas M. A.; Slotow, Rob; Pretorius, Yolanda(Springer, 2016-08)
The scale of resource heterogeneity may
influence how resources are locally partitioned between
co-existing large and small organisms such as trees and
grasses in savannas. Scale-related plant responses may, in
turn, ...
