Title:

Long-range migrations and dispersals of Africanrnbuffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Kavango - Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation area

Publication Year:
2014
Abstract:

We report several long-range movements of buffalo that rank as the longest documented distances for this species. For migration (i.e., return movement between geographically separated seasonal home ranges), a female collared on the Kwando river floodplains in the dry season of October 2010 moved 87 km west down the Caprivi Strip before returning to her dry season range, a round trip journey of >170 km (Fig. 1, individual 94043). The next wet season (2012), she again moved ~87 km, but this time south into Botswana, before returning to the same dry season range for a different >170 km journey. Additionally, another female collared on the Kwando river floodplains in the dry season travelled over 100 km west down the Caprivi Strip, and despite being closer to the Kavango river, began returning to her Kwando dry season range, which when completed would have been a return trip of over 200 km.

Publication Title:

African Journal of Ecology

Volume:
52
Issue:
4
Pages:
581-584
Item Type:
Journal Article
Language:
en
Files:
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