Lessons from Management Interventions: Consequences for Lion-Buffalo Interactions

摘要: Management interventions in small (<30 000 ha) to medium-sized (<100 fenced reserves require careful planning minimize alterations predator-prey dynamics. However, when result severe changes predator prey dynamics, learning from these outcomes can assist informing future interventions. In ventions. We used lion (Panthera leo) and buffalo (Syncerus caffer) (lion introduction translocation) the Addo Elephant National Park investigate response of buffalo—lion dynamic park. Responses did not conform our expectations for either lions or buffalo. Rather than dominate remaining solitary male lion, introduced coalition split, with one (known hunt successfully where it originated) joining male. Following fragmentation as a translocation, previously large herds failed re-form. These two resul...