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  • 15 - Handling and Moving the African Buffalo

  • from Part IV - Management
  • Edited by Alexandre Caron, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France, Daniel Cornélis, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) and Foundation François Sommer, France, Philippe Chardonnet, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) SSC Antelope Specialist Group, Herbert H. T. Prins, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo
    Published online:
    09 November 2023
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023, pp 407-430
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  • Summary

    Conservation, management and research require buffalo to be handled and sometimes moved from one place to another. Techniques providing more efficiency and a safer environment for buffalo capture and handling, including mass physical and individual chemical capture techniques, have been developed over the past few decades. These techniques, which are based on the experience and skills of staff, retain some room for improvement, e.g. using new drugs especially non-opioids for chemical immobilization, adapting technological advances (e.g. drone, scent technology) or new concepts (e.g. virtual boundary) to physical capture. The cardinal rule of buffalo or any wildlife capture, translocation and release is to regard all human interventions as potentially stressful to the animals, and therefore to strive to conduct them as far as possible as ‘short-term and low-stress management exercises’.