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- Had a tricky 3-4 mile drive to our hill camp in black dark
without lights along a winding dirt road. En route flashed our lights
momentarily onto a white-tailed mongoose - my first.
In discussion of predation I find there has been some testing of
the influence of in any way distinguishing one animal from another by marking
Some years ago here [Dr. Hugh] Lamprey captured a number of wildebeest + painted their
horns white. They were promptly picked off by the lions. There seems
to be a possibility that even the slight disability arising from
being recently immobilized + ear marked might be sufficient to increase
the odds against an individual in a heavily predated population.
Here the ultimate fate of every hoofed animal is to be killed
by lion or hyena. Even a very sick lion seldom dies in Serengeti
- they are killed by hyena - In Nairobi Park "Blondie" a lion
known to have lived 23 years died this year of old age - but in Nairobi
there are few hyenas.
In discussion of disease problems bilharzia apparently
entered Africa with East Indian labour during the building of the
railway. Rinderpest came in with European cattle. The big
devastation was in the 1875-90 period in Uganda - later in Kenya
See a paper by Stewart in E. African Jr of Agri [East African Journal of Agriculture] within last 6 yrs [years]
summarizes the epizootics in game.
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