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AGEING THE UGANDA DEFASSA WATERBUCK KOBUS DEFASSA UGANDAE NEUMANN
Author(s) -
Spinage C. A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
african journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.499
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1365-2028
pISSN - 0141-6707
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2028.1967.tb00756.x
Subject(s) - cementum , attrition , dentistry , biology , orthodontics , geography , medicine , dentin
Summary Chronological ages have been assigned to the defassa waterbuck of western Uganda using four complementary techniques. These are the “jaw board” method in which collected skulls are sorted into arbitrary groups based upon tooth eruption and attrition; tooth impressions taken from immobilised animals at yearly intervals; counting of cementum lines in sectioned incisor teeth, and growth of horns in young males. Using these methods an animal could be aged to within plus or minus six months.