Web of life 23 : territorial behaviour of the Uganda kob

This half-hour series was broadcast in four runs from 1959 to 1963, except 1962. It started as a twenty-six week examination of different forms of animal life, and added more programs in subsequent years. The series was hosted, written and narrated by Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan. This episode was based on research and script by Dr. Helmut K. Buechner. Dr. Cowan introduced the animals living in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Murchison Falls National Park and Semuliki Wildlife Reserve in Uganda. He focused on the Uganda kobs and the relationship between the kobs and their territorial ground. Territorial behavior of the Uganda kob is largely the defense of small, fixed territories within a central area of concentrated territorial activity. Females enter the territorial ground throughout the year for the purpose of breeding.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Contributor

• Buechner, Helmut K. (Helmut Karl)
• Washington State University
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Connochie, Tom
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Subject

• Buechner, Helmut K. (Helmut Karl)
• Territoriality (Zoology)
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Waterbuck
• Savanna animals
• Animal behavior

Publisher

• CBC Vancouver

Language

• eng

Identifier

• CBUT-9881-10

Date created

• June 12, 1960

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 film reel (00:28:55) : black and white ; 16 mm

Alternative title

• Web of life show 23

Geographic Coverage

• Uganda--Kabalega National Park
• Uganda--Ruwenzori National Park
• Uganda
• Uganda--Semuliki National Park

Coordinates

• 2.16003, 31.75909
• 0.82181, 30.06253
• 1.25, 32.5
• -0.25, 30.18639

Physical Repository

• Physical item housed at CBC Vancouver.

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• television programs
• documentary film

Technical note

• mp4. Digitization of the films was contracted by the CBC. Metadata by M. He. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/pc0a-mb30