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Gerenuks feed at higher reaches than other gazelles and most antelopes by standing erect on their hind legs, with their long necks extended, to browse on tall bushes. |
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LionsMaasai Steppe LionHi, this is Rae Winn again. I wanted to quickly share a photo of one of the lions I wrote about recently. No news yet on the missing cubs. We are out on field exercises for much of July, but I’ll write as soon as there is an update on the cubs or a chance [...] Whisker Patterns, Lion Mating, and the Missing CubsI’m pleased to note that the Tarangire Lion project has some additional help this summer–Rae Wynn-Grant, a master’s candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Here she tells about her experiences in the field so far. My first two weeks of lion tracking with the Tarangire Lion Project team has been exciting [...] The Lion Prides of TarangireSome of you had asked about the number of lions in our study area, sorry for the long silence on this – I thought I would wait for the series on human-lion conflict to complete, but it appears that will carry on for a while. As we wait for results on the chemical analysis to [...] Reports of Lion Poisoning and Carbofuran
02 Apr 2009
3:36 AM UTC Thanks to recent coverage by the US television network CBS on lion poisoning in Kenya, many people are becoming aware of the ongoing threats to lions due to poisoning using the agricultural pesticide carbofuran. In areas where poisoning has occurred in Maasai Steppe, people have used a white powder, which I am not certain is [...] Lion Conservation Challenges: Building a Better BomaOver the years we have learnt that ineffective husbandry – especially poor livestock security at night – contributes significantly to high levels of livestock predation. At night, livestock is kept in enclosures (bomas) usually made of thorn bush walls. Such bomas do not provide adequate security against invading predators. We are now working with pastoralists’ [...] Update on Lion Killings in the Maasai Steppe
02 Mar 2009
6:28 AM UTC In my previous blog post, I promised to provide details about the recent human-lion conflict incident in our study area in which a male and a lioness from one of our study prides called Altipiano were speared to death because of predation on livestock. The incident took place at the end of December 2008, and [...] Introducing the Lions of TarangireThe conservation of large carnivores poses a significant challenge worldwide. In Africa, the African lion was once widely distributed across the continent, but populations have dramatically declined and in some areas disappeared due to human population increases, fragmentation of habitat and human-lion conflict has reached extraordinary levels in many ecosystems. The remaining populations of the [...] |
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