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Perceptions towards Egyptian Geese at the Steenberg Golf Estate, Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: RobM Little --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa JessL Sutton --- , South AfricaThe number of Egyptian Geese Alopochen aegyptiaca has increased in the Western Cape province, South Africa, during the past few decades and they are allegedly perceived as a problem on golf courses. However, attitudes towards the geese on golf courses... -
Beastly whiteness: Animal kinds and the social imagination in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- Dept of Social Anthropology,How do animals enter into the constitution of differences in human affairs? I address the question by showing how, in Zulu households, animals themselves are marked as beings with ethnic properties. If animals can be understood as being ethnically distinguishable,... -
A review of over a decade of DNA barcoding in South Africa: a faunal perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jessica M da Silva --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa Sandi Willows-Munro --- School of Life Sciences, South AfricaFor over a decade, molecular short standardised DNA fragments, termed DNA barcodes, have been developed for species discrimination around the world. As of 2010, the vast majority of barcoding research was biased toward particular taxonomic groups and geographic regions largely... -
Variations in heavy metal concentrations among trophic levels of the food webs in two agroecosystems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mustafa Soliman --- Entomology Department, Egypt Mohamed El-Shazly --- Entomology Department, Egypt Emtithal Abd-El-Samie --- Entomology Department, Egypt Hamed Fayed --- Zoology Department, EgyptExcessive accumulation of trace metal in soil represents a growing environmental problem posing severe risks to biota, humans and ecosystems. Concentrations of Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn were determined in soil, as well as in representatives of some trophic levels... -
Crested Guineafowl and samango monkey associations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jacco J Leemans --- , The Netherlands Birthe Linden --- , South Africa Frank van Langevelde --- , The NetherlandsAssociations between animals of different species have been observed for a large variety of taxa. These polyspecific groups are thought to provide advantages to at least one of the species involved, especially foraging benefits or reduced predation risk. In the... -
Selection and evaluation of promising indigenous fodder trees and shrubs as supplemental diets for ruminant animals across different agroecological environments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Shigdaf Mekuriaw --- Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia Atsushi Tsunekawa --- Tottori University, Japan Toshiyoshi Ichinohe --- Shimane University Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Firew Tegegne --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Nigussie Haregeweyn --- Tottori University, Japan Nobuyuki Kobayashi --- Tottori University, Japan Assaminew Tassew --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Yeshambel Mekuriaw --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Misganaw Walie Belete --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Seid Ali --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Mitsuru Tsubo --- Tottori University, Japan Toshiya Okuro --- The University of Tokyo, Japan Derege Meshesha --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Getu Abebe --- Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, EthiopiaThe aim of this study was to select and evaluate promising potential indigenous fodder trees and shrubs (IFTS) as supplemental feeds for ruminant animals. Through interviews with farmers and field inventories, 107 IFTS species were identified as ruminant feeds, from...