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Estimating population sizes of lions Panthera leo and spotted hyaenas Crocuta crocuta in Uganda’s savannah parks, using lure count methods

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07/2014
Author
Omoya, Edward Okot
Mudumba, Tutilo
Buckland, Stephen T
Mulondo, Paul
Plumptre, Andrew J
Keywords
Call-up census
Hyaenas
Lions
Lure count
Population estimation
Uganda
G Geography (General)
QL Zoology
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Abstract
Despite > 60 years of conservation in Uganda’s national parks the populations of lions and spotted hyaenas in these areas have never been estimated using a census method. Estimates for some sites have been extrapolated to other protected areas and educated guesses have been made but there has been nothing more definitive. We used a lure count analysis method of call-up counts to estimate populations of the lion Panthera leo and spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the parks where reasonable numbers of these species exist: Queen Elizabeth Protected Area, Murchison Falls Conservation Area and Kidepo Valley National Park. We estimated a total of 408 lions and 324 hyaenas for these three conservation areas. It is unlikely that other conservation areas in Uganda host >10 lions or > 40 hyaenas. The Queen Elizabeth Protected Area had the largest populations of lions and hyaenas: 140 and 211, respectively. It is estimated that lion numbers have declined by 30% in this protected area since the late 1990s and there are increasing concerns for the long-term viability of both species in Uganda.
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Omoya , E O , Mudumba , T , Buckland , S T , Mulondo , P & Plumptre , A J 2014 , ' Estimating population sizes of lions Panthera leo and spotted hyaenas Crocuta crocuta in Uganda’s savannah parks, using lure count methods ' , Oryx , vol. 48 , pp. 394-401 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313000112
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Oryx
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313000112
ISSN
0030-6053
Type
Journal article
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© 2013 Fauna & Flora International.
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Funding: United States Agency for International Development
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6885

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