Drought Sensitive Species Beginning to Return
Category: Mammals | Date: Nov 28 2007 | By: tumaren
In the drought of 2000/2001 the species that were hit the hardest in Laikipia were the following mammals: Warthog, Waterbuck, Hippo, and Buffalo. Since then it has been the warthogs that have sustained the best rebound with waterbuck following. Buffalo in our area have been greatly helped by larger herds that live south of us on higher ground near the Loldiga mountains. Still we only see Buffalo in small herds of threes and fours and typically they are all bulls with family herds only coming onto us occasionally. Hippos have taken a very long time to return. Every once and a while we have a couple pass by Tumaren but the do not seem to stay for very long. Evidently there are nice deep pools that the few individual that are still around prefer. Despite that we have seen young hippos with mothers and waterbuck these days are frequently encountered in groups of 6 or 7. Its nice to see all these guys beginning to return.
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3 Responses to “Drought Sensitive Species Beginning to Return”
Dipesh, on 28 Nov 2007
Hi,
We have had a lot of posts recently about poisoning of predators. I was wondering if this is something that you have come across in your area.
great to hear the animals are coming back!
James, on 28 Nov 2007
Dipesh,
We have not had much poisoning that i am aware of yet when kerry was in Shaba national reserve she found lots of dying laughing doves which are often times indicative of poisoning drom livestock diping in dry areas..
Lisa, California, on 28 Nov 2007
Glad to hear that these animals are starting to return. Thank you for letting us know this. Lisa
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