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- Title
Evidence that vulture restaurants increase the local abundance of mammalian carnivores in South Africa.
- Authors
Yarnell, Richard W.; Phipps, William Louis; Dell, Steve; MacTavish, Lynne M.; Scott, Dawn M.
- Abstract
Vulture restaurants are used worldwide as a conservation tool to provide threatened vultures with a source of supplementary carrion free from anthropogenic contaminants such as poisons and veterinary drugs. While the impacts of supplementary feeding sites on ecosystem and scavenging community dynamics have been investigated in Europe, no information is currently available for southern Africa. This study presents evidence that providing supplementary carrion for vultures stimulated an increase in local abundance of two species of mammalian carnivores, the brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) and the black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas). These findings require that the wider impacts of providing supplementary carrion for conserving threatened species are fully investigated.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; VULTURE restaurants (Wildlife conservation); CARNIVOROUS animals; ANTHROPOGENIC effects on nature; BLACK-backed jackal
- Publication
African Journal of Ecology, 2015, Vol 53, Issue 3, p287
- ISSN
0141-6707
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/aje.12178