Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
D. Zaphiro, L. Talbot (1961)
The Use of Light Aircraft in East African Wild Life Research and Game ManagementOryx, 6
S. Brody, H. Lardy (1947)
Bioenergetics and GrowthCopeia, 1947
Hemingsen Hemingsen (1950)
The relation of the standard (basal) energy metabolism to total weight of living organismsRep. Steno Mem. Hosp., 4
M. Grzimek, B. Grzimek (1960)
Census of Plains Animals in the Serengeti National Park, TanganyikaJournal of Wildlife Management, 24
Talbot Talbot, Talbot Talbot (1961)
How much does it weighWild Life (Nairobi), 3
H. Lamprey, J. Glasgow, F. Lee-Jones, B. Weitz (1962)
A simultaneous census of the potential and actual food sources of the tsetse fly Glossina swynnertoni Austen.Journal of Animal Ecology, 31
Lamprey Lamprey (1963b)
The Tarangire Game ReserveTanganyika Notes, V60
Meinertzhagen Meinertzhagen (1938)
Some weights and measurements of large mammalsProc. zool. Soc., Lond. A., 108
H. Lamprey (1963)
ECOLOGICAL SEPARATION OF THE LARGE MAMMAL SPECIES IN THE TARANGIRE GAME RESERVE, TANGANYIKA†African Journal of Ecology, 1
D. Stewart, D. Zaphiro (1963)
BIOMASS AND DENSITY OF WILD HERBIVORES IN DIFFERENT EAST AFRICAN HABITATS, 27
Hemingsen Hemingsen (1960)
Energy metabolism as related to body size and respiratory surfaces, and its evolutionRep. Steno Mem. Hosp., 9
Zaphiro Zaphiro (1959)
The use of a light aircraft to count gameWild Life (Nairobi), 1
Lamprey Lamprey (1963a)
Ecological separation of the large mammal species in the Tarangire Game Reserve, TanganyikaE. Afr. Wildl. J., 1
Grzimek Grzimek, Grzimek Grzimek (1960)
Census of the plains animals in the Serengeti National Park, TanganyikaJ. Wildlife Mgmt., 24
G. Petrides, F. Bourliére, J. Verschuren (1961)
Introduction a L'Ecologie des Ongules du Parc National AlbertJournal of Wildlife Management, 25
Swynnerton Swynnerton, Hayman Hayman (1951)
A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar ProtectorateJ. E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc., 20
Summary An account is given of the transect system of game counting used in this study, including the use of a visibility profile to determine the absolute area covered. Monthly density figures derived from the transect counts over four years are given for each of the common species separately and for the large mammal population as a whole. Direct aerial counting and total counting on the ground were employed to provide checks on the transect results and the former method was also used to obtain an overall population estimate of the Tarangire Game Reserve. The application of statistical analysis to the numerical data obtained is discussed and, because of the time‐serial correlation of the monthly values, a non‐parametric method is employed to confirm the significance of as many as possible of the density fluctuations indicated. Within the Tarangire Reserve, the annual density of large mammals varied between c. 60 animals per square mile in the rains and c. 250 animals per square mile during the dry season concentration. Aerial and ground survey and counting of the dispersed animals in the Masai Steppe provided data on the extent and the routes of the dispersal of animals after they leave the Reserve in the rains, and indicate a dispersal density of 2.5 animals per square mile (as compared with 80–140 animals per square mile in the similar country of the Serengeti Plains). The lowness of this density is attributed to human activity over the last 50 years, particularly to the removal of dry season water supplies. The seasonal fluctuations in numbers in the Tarangire Reserve, due to the movement of some species, are discussed and the ungulates are classified as residents and immigrants. The residents are further divided into those which have partial dispersal in the rains and those which do not. Impala numbers fluctuate seasonally but with a phasing which is the opposite of that of the immigrant species. A further element in the population consists of passage migrants which occur irregularly in the Tarangire Reserve as they move from one part of the dispersal area to another in the rains. Estimates of the biomass and of the metabolic energy expenditure rate in the transect‐area population indicate that the total varies between 16,000 Calories per hour per square mile (16,000 lbs weight: 60 animals per square mile) in the rains, and 170,000 Calories per hour per square mile (207,000 lbs weight: 250 animals per square mile) in the dry season. The results confirm the very high carrying capacity of African Acacia savanna game range.
African Journal of Ecology – Wiley
Published: Aug 1, 1964
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.