Open AccessEffects of the number of people on efficient capture and sample collection: A lion case study
Author(s) -
Sam M. Ferreira,
Nkabeng T. Maruping,
Darius Schoultz,
Travis R. Smit
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the south african veterinary association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2224-9435
pISSN - 1019-9128
DOI - 10.4102/jsava.v84i1.131
Subject(s) - carnivore , national park , geography , automatic identification and data capture , mark and recapture , sample (material) , sampling (signal processing) , computer science , demography , ecology , archaeology , biology , predation , population , sociology , telecommunications , chemistry , chromatography , detector , speech recognition
Certain carnivore research projects and approaches depend on successful capture of individuals of interest. The number of people present at a capture site may determine success of a capture. In this study 36 lion capture cases in the Kruger National Park were used to evaluate whether the number of people present at a capture site influenced lion response rates and whether the number of people at a sampling site influenced the time it took to process the collected samples. The analyses suggest that when nine or fewer people were present, lions appeared faster at a call-up locality compared with when there were more than nine people. The number of people, however, did not influence the time it took to process the lions. It is proposed that efficient lion capturing should spatially separate capture and processing sites and minimise the number of people at a capture site.
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