Monitoring African buffalo (#Syncerus caffer#) and cattle (#Bos taurus#) movement across a damaged veterinary control fence at a Southern African wildlife/livestock interface

Chigwenhese L., Murwira A., Zengeya F., Masocha M., De Garine-Wichatitsky M., Caron A.
2016

We test the extent to which fence damage or fence permeability (resulting from human and elephant damage) influences patterns of cattle and buffalo movement at the periphery of Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe. We used spoor data to detect and compare the frequency of cattle and buffalo movement across the fence boundary. Results show that spoor proportions for cattle were significantly higher ...

Ecologie animale; Sciences et hygiène vétérinaires : considérations générales