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Large Carnivores in Gonarezhou NP?

Category: Uncategorized | Date: May 24 2009 | By: zimbabwewilddogs

Hi folks,

Just a quick post today to let you know this blog will be quiet for a while - I’m off into the field to do a spoor survey in Gonarezhou National Park.  If you read my previous post about the park, you’ll know that it’s really a wild place.  We’ll be driving transects morning and evening when the sun is at an angle (best to see the spoor) and camping out wherever we end up. 

The purpose is to get some idea of the number and distribution of large carnivores in the park, specifically of course the wild dogs, but also lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, civet cats, serval etc.  Given the lack of current knowledge about the park, this will provide an excellent baseline for looking at changes in carnivore numbers in the park, and we’ll be following up on any wild dog spoor seen to see if we can see any of the dogs and get more of an idea about how many there are in the park.

I’ll send an update and let you know how we got on as soon we finish and get back to “civilisation”!!

Rosemary

One Response to “Large Carnivores in Gonarezhou NP?”

Mark Kelly, on 24 May 2009

Thank you for this post. I’m quite anxious to learn about the carnivore population in this part, as it appears to be rather remote. I’ll do some reading up on the park and look forward to your return.

Mark

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