scholarly journals Applying the resource dispersion hypothesis to a fission–fusion society: A case study of the African lion ( Panthera leo )

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 9111-9119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moreangels M. Mbizah ◽  
Marion Valeix ◽  
David W. Macdonald ◽  
Andrew J. Loveridge
Keyword(s):  
Panthera Leo ◽  
Resource Dispersion ◽  
African Lion ◽  
Resource Dispersion Hypothesis

scholarly journals Beyond ritual and economics: Maasai lion hunting and conservation politics

Oryx ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara J. Goldman ◽  
Joana Roque de Pinho ◽  
Jennifer Perry
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
African Lion ◽  
Species Survival ◽  
Conservation Politics

AbstractPopulations of the African lion Panthera leo are declining dramatically, with the species’ survival in some areas closely linked to levels of tolerance by rural communities. In Tanzania and Kenya several of the remaining lion populations outside protected areas reside adjacent to rural communities, where they are hunted. As many of these communities are Maasai, research and conservation efforts have focused on understanding and curbing Maasai lion hunting practices. Much of this work has been informed by a dichotomous explanatory model of Maasai lion hunting as either a ‘cultural’ ritual or a ‘retaliatory’ behaviour against predation on livestock. We present qualitative data from interviews (n = 246) in both countries to illustrate that lion hunting by Maasai is related to overlapping motivations that are simultaneously social, emotional and political (in response to conservation initiatives). Additional case study material from Tanzania highlights how politics associated with conservation activities and age-set dynamics affect lion hunting in complex and overlapping ways. Our findings contribute an ethnographic perspective on Maasai lion hunting, people–predator relations, and how these relations are linked to conservation politics.

Developing a management plan for the African lion Panthera leo ssp in North America

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN H. SHOEMAKER ◽  
SUE E. PFAFF
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
African Lion

Age determination of the African lion (Panthera leo)

2009 ◽  
Vol 185 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Smuts ◽  
J. L. Anderson ◽  
J. C. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Age Determination ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
African Lion

scholarly journals Fatal haemorrhage and neoplastic thrombosis in a captive African lion (Panthera leo) with metastatic testicular sex cord–stromal tumour

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Antonio Gonzales-Viera ◽  
Angélica María Sánchez-Sarmiento ◽  
Natália Coelho Couto de Azevedo Fernandes ◽  
Juliana Mariotti Guerra ◽  
Rodrigo Albergaria Ressio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stromal Tumour ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
African Lion ◽  
Fatal Haemorrhage

Potential for camera-traps and spatial mark-resight models to improve monitoring of the critically endangered West African lion (Panthera leo)

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 3527-3541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamadou D. Kane ◽  
Dana J. Morin ◽  
Marcella J. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
African Lion

Spatio-temporal niche partitioning between the African lion (Panthera leo leo) and spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in western African savannas

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Etotépé A. Sogbohossou ◽  
Barthélémy D. Kassa ◽  
Matthias Waltert ◽  
Igor Khorozyan
Keyword(s):  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Crocuta Crocuta ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
Spotted Hyena ◽  
Temporal Niche ◽  
African Lion ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Spatial structure and land-cover use in a low-density Mediterranean population of Eurasian badgers

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 1493-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Miguel Rosalino ◽  
David White Macdonald ◽  
Margarida Santos-Reis
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Meles Meles ◽  
Quercus Suber ◽  
Home Range Size ◽  
Cork Oak ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Mediterranean Population ◽  
Resource Dispersion ◽  
Resource Dispersion Hypothesis ◽  
Vegetable Gardens

Eurasian badgers, Meles meles (L., 1758), have an extensive geographic range throughout which their social organization varies. Their capacity for intraspecific variation can now best be understood by studying them in landscapes that differ from the lush, lowland farmland where their tendency to form large groups has been most intensively investigated. Badgers in cork oak (Quercus suber L.) woodland are thus a priority for study, as this Mediterranean landscape provides an extreme contrast to those studied elsewhere. In this habitat in Portugal, we found 0.36–0.48 badgers/km2, one of the lowest population densities recorded in Western Europe. Here, individuals used seasonally stable home ranges that averaged 4.46 km2 and that were occupied by 3–4 adults plus 3–4 cubs of the year. In this landscape, badgers selectively used cork oak woodland with understory and riparian vegetation. As predicted by the resource dispersion hypothesis, home-range size was positively correlated with food-patch dispersion. In southwestern Portugal, badgers depend upon an environmental mosaic such as olive groves and orchards and vegetable gardens for food and cork oak woodlands for shelter and protection.

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