Spoor Tracking to Monitor Cheetah Populations

Lorraine K. Boast; Linda van Bommel; Leah Andresen; Ezequiel Fabiano

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-804088-1.00030-7

Spoor Tracking to Monitor Cheetah Populations

Lorraine K. Boast^*, Linda van Bommel, Leah Andresen, Ezequiel Fabiano

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Abstract

Following an animal and interpreting its behavior and individual characteristics using its spoor is an age-old technique used by traditional hunter-gatherer societies. Standardized scientific surveys of cheetah spoor have been used to determine the presence or absence of cheetahs for habitat modeling, to identify behavior, and to determine occupancy and density. New technologies, such as hand-held field computers and software to identify individual cheetahs are opening up new avenues of research using this traditional technique.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cheetahs
Subtitle of host publication	Biology and Conservation: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	427-435
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128041208
ISBN (Print)	9780128040881
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804088-1.00030-7
Publication status	Published - 2018

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