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Animals 1 4
Sign Footmarks 4
Sign Droppings 1
Sign Skull 1
Sign Droppings and
urine
1
2 Bushbaby
3 Marsh mongoose
4 Tree hyrax
5 Ngawa
Animals 1 1
Sign Food remains 1
Animals 1 1
Signs Remains of 2
feed (snails)
Signs Foot print 1
Signs Pellets and 1
urine
Signs Pellets and
1
smell
Signs Sound 1
Signs Urine and smell 1
Signs Smell 1
Signs footprint 2 1
Animal 1 1
6 Bushpig Signs Dung and
feeding signs
1
7 Bats Signs Smell 1
8 Rattus rattus Animals 1 1 1 1
9 Domestic dog Signs Footprints 1
As seen from Table 4.11 above only few animals were recorded along the transects
during the foot count. Out of the 9 animal species recorded only 4 were seen live
including vervet monkeys, bushbaby, civet cat, and Black rat whereas the rest were
recorded from animal signs only. Again like the resulsin Jozani National park the
amount of data collected did not suffice to perform any meaningful calculations for
animal density except for vervet monkeys which featured in almost all transects. At
mean strip width of 27.7 m (pooled for all 6 transects) the vervet monkey density was
estimated at 121 animals per km 2 a relatively high density not found in many places.
Vervet monkeys also registered a high index of relative density at 0.9 signs per km
covered during the foot count. Other animals with index of relative density in
parenthenses were bushbaby (0.07 signs km), marsh mongoose (0.21 signs km), tree
hyrax (0.34 signs km), ngawa (0.21 signs km), bushpig (0.07 signs km) bats (0.07
signs km), Black rats (0.21 signs km) and domestic dog 0.07 signs km). However,
despite animals like Black rat showed very low occurrence from foot count transects
they are one of the most abundant animals in the forest. The small number was due to
hiding and freezing habit when they sense disturbance.
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