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Elephant Survivors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Anthony Hall-Martin
Anthony Hall-Martin
Affiliation:
Kruger National Park, Private Bag X404, Skukuza 1350.
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Abstract

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Three small elephant populations have survived in South Africa despite near extermination in the recent past. In Tongaland a group of fewer than 30 bulls survives by keeping contact with the population in a nearby reserve; in the Knysna, where there were 13 in 1920, there are now 12; and in the Addo Bush 11 survivors in 1931 had increased to only 18 in 1953, but to 102 in 1979. The author tells the story of each group, discusses the reasons for the different status of each, and describes what is being done to conserve them.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , August 1980 , pp. 355 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1980

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