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Browsing Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies by Issue Date
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International Symposium on Wildlife Management in Southern Africa, A Veterinary Perspective (1990 : Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa); Taute, Johnny
(Pretoria : University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science., 1993)
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Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Schoeman, Tanya; Jacobson, Linda S.
(Japanese Society of Veterinary Parasitology, 2006)
Babesia felis originally described from wild cats in the Sudan was subsequently incriminated as causing clinical disease
in domestic cats. Although babesiosis in domestic cats has been reported sporadically from various ...
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Quan, Melvyn
(University of Pretoria, 2006-03-09)
The copper status of blesbok was evaluated by measuring the hepatic and plasma copper concentrations, and erythrocyte superoxide dismutase activity. The copper status of blesbok from the Karoo Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape ...
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Oliver, Colin Malcolm
(University of Pretoria, 2006-03-29)
The role of territoriality was investigated using 25 impala rams in a site in South Africa. Field data were used to determine known rams as territorial and bachelors, as well as aspirant and indeterminate. The mean territorial ...
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Espie, Ian W
(University of Pretoria, 2006-03-29)
Objectives: 1. Describe a computer system built and being further developed to facilitate management of data and information relating to Zoo Medicine at the National Zoological Gardens. 2. Contextualise and evaluate this ...
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Delsink, Audrey; Van Altena, J.J.; Grobler, D.; Bertschinger, Hendrik Jan; Kirkpatrick, J.; Slotow, Rob
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2006-09)
Populations of the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, are growing rapidly in southern Africa, to the extent that population control has become essential. The management option of translocation is no longer realistically ...
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Taylor, William Andrew; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-; Krecek, R.C.
(Blackwell, 2006-11)
Behavioural observations were carried out on grey rhebok and mountain reedbuck at Sterkfontein Dam Nature Reserve, South Africa, for a period of 1 year between May 2001 and April 2002. Four harem herds of grey rhebok, five ...
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Hunter, Luke T.B.; Pretorius, K.; Carlisle, L.C.; Rickelton, M.; Walker, C.; Slotow, Robert; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-04)
The success of efforts to re-establish mammalian carnivores within their former range is dependent on three key factors : methodological considerations, the biological requirements of the target species, and the involvement ...
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Oliver, C.M.; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-; Van der Merwe, D.
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007-06)
The role of territoriality was investigated by studying 25 impala rams at a reserve in the Waterberg region of South Africa (23°45'S, 28°23'E). Mean territorial tenure was 67.25 days (range 23–99), with a mean territory ...
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Koster, Liza Sally; Schoeman, Johan P.; Meltzer, David George Anton
(South African Veterinary Association, 2007-09)
Please refer to abstract in article
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Bredin, I.P.; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-; Mitchell, Graham
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
The daily requirement for calcium and phosphorus by giraffes to sustain the growth and maintenanceof their skeletons is large. The source of sufficient calcium is browse. The source of necessary phosphorus is obscure, but ...
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Kuhn, Brian F.; Berger, Lee R.; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-
(Elsevier, 2009-02)
Tooth mark frequencies on long bones are examined from the assemblages of all three extant bone-collecting hyaenids. Comparisons are made with a recent study examining tooth mark frequencies and possible sources of variation ...
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Mitchell, Graham; Van Sittert, Sybrand J.; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-
(Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2009-10)
When a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) lowers its head to drink, blood could enter the jugular vein from the inferior vena cava or regurgitate from the jugular veins into the cranial veins. We investigated the anatomy of ...
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Mitchell, Graham; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-
(Elsevier, 2009-12)
There has been co-evolution of a long neck and high blood pressure in giraffes. How the cardiovascular
system (CVS) has adapted to produce a high blood pressure, and how it compares with other similar sized
mammals largely ...
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Mitchell, Graham; Van Sittert, Sybrand J.; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-
(Royal Society of South Africa, 2010-11)
Darwin’s theory for the evolution of the long neck of giraffes is that height confers access to browse free of
competition from smaller browsers. The theory predicts that survivors of a drought will be the tallest
animals ...
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Krecek, R.C.; Penzhorn, Barend Louis; De Waal, D.T.; Peter, R.J.; Prichard, R.; Sumption, D.
(2011)
The origin of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology
(WAAVP) African Foundation is described. The 16th WAAVP Conference held in South
Africa in 1997 generated a surplus of ZAR 430 460 (US$ ...
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Mitchell, Graham; Skinner, J.D. (John Dawson), 1932-
(Elsevier, 2011-01)
We have measured lung mass and trachea dimensions in 46 giraffes of both genders ranging in body mass
from 147 kg to 1441 kg, calculated static and dynamic lung volumes, and developed allometric equations that
relate ...
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Dion, Elise; Van Schalkwyk, Louis; Lambin, Eric F.
(Elsevier, 2011-03)
This study aimed at understanding how landscape heterogeneity influences outbreaks of contagious diseases in southern Africa. Landscape attributes influence patterns of movement and behaviour of animal hosts, virus spread ...
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Kohn, Tertius Abraham; Burroughs, Richard E.J.; Hartman, Marthinus Jacobus; Noakes, Timothy David
(Elsevier, 2011-06)
Lion (Panthera leo) and caracal (Caracal caracal) skeletal muscle samples from Vastus lateralis, Longissimus dorsi and Bluteus medius were analysed for fiber type and citrate synthase (CS; EC 2.3.3.1), 3-hydroxyacyl Co A ...
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Somers, Michael J.; McGaw, Lyndy Joy; Nel, Jan A.J.; Loutit, Rudi J.; Braby, Rod
(Springer, 2013)
We studied the relationship between resource—
food patch—richness and dispersion on group and territory
size of black-backed jackals Canis mesomelas in the Namib
Desert. Along beaches where food patches are mostly ...