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Table 3.1 Large mammal population estimates for Pian-Upe Wildlife Reserve
Vernacular name
Specific name
April Oct May
1968 1 1983 2 1995 3 1996 4
Olive baboon Papio anubis - 73 - 176
Plains zebra Equus burchelli 2,336 *643 402 -
Warthog Phacochoerus africanus 5 - 12 25
Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis 899 109 10 -
Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus 1,025 309 408 88
Topi Damaliscus lunatus 1,945 743 12 189
Grant’s gazelle Gazella granti 102 - 36 -
African buffalo Syncerus caffer 40 - 515 214
Common eland Taurotragus oryx 1,598 - 10 -
Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus - - 204 13
Common duiker Sylvicapra grimmia - - 156 176
Roan antelope Hippotragus equinus 387 254 15 151
Oribi Ourebia ourebi - 91 -
Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus 127 *15 - -
Kob Kobus kob 136 109 144 76
Bohor reedbuck Redunca redunca 400 417 995 2,961
Nomenclature and taxonomy follow Davies & Vanden Berghe (1994).
Key
1 Game Department, cited in Lamprey & Michelmore, 1996a
2 Eltringham & Malpas, 1993, except *Eltringham et al., 1992
3 Lamprey & Michelmore, 1996a
4 Lamprey & Michelmore, 1996b
3.3 Methods
The survey was conducted in two phases from September to December 1996 and April to
June 1997.
Volunteer research assistants were trained in basic navigation skills (see section 2.3). They
were then trained in data recording and the identification of both the animals they were likely
to encounter using Dorst & Dandelot (1972) and Kingdon (1974ab; 1977; 1979; 1982ab) and
their signs using Stuart & Stuart (1994), Liebenberg (1990), and Walker (1988).
Direct records were made when an animal was actually seen by an observer (an observation),
and indirect records when there was evidence that an animal had visited the site, but was not
actually seen by the observer (e.g., dung, footprints, holes or scratchings, remains of a dead
animal, etc.). All footprints were sketched and measured, and all dung samples collected and
brought back to the base camp, where a basic working reference collection was established.
The reserve was first stratified into habitat types. Small teams led by a member of staff then
walked through each 1km UTM grid square systematically collecting information on the
presence of large mammals within a 100m wide belt transect, giving a sampling intensity of
10%.
Opportunistic records were also made throughout the reserve.
Frontier-Uganda Wildlife Protected Areas Project January 1998
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