Ecological determinants of herd size in the Thornicroft’s giraffe of Zambia: Giraffe herd size in Zambia
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2010Journal title
African Journal of EcologyVolume
48Issue
4Begin page
962End page
971
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http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01198.xAbstract
Given that giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) live in an extremely flexible social system, and that breeding is nonseasonal, they are an ideal species for examining how ecological variables contribute to fluctuations in herd size. We present an analysis of 34 years of data on a population of Thornicroft’s giraffe (G. c. thornicrofti Lydekker 1911) that reveal how herd size changes with season and habitat....Type
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10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01198.x
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