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| Herbst, M.; Mills, M.G.L. | |
| Techniques used in the study of African wildcat, _Felis silvestris cafra_, in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (South Africa/Botswana) | |
| 2010 Koedoe (52): 1-6 | |
The techniques used for the capture, marking and habituation of African wildcats (_Felis silvestris cafra_) in the Kalahari are described and evaluated in this paper. African wildcats were captured, with either baited cage traps or chemical immobilisation through darting. Darting proved to be a more efficient and less stressful way of capturing cats. Very high frequency (VHF) radio collars fitted with activity monitors were especially effective in the open habitat of the Kalahari for locating and maintaining contact with cats; they also aided in determining if the cats were active or resting in dense vegetation. The habituation of individual cats to a 4ž4 vehicle proved to be time consuming, but it provided a unique opportunity to investigate the feeding ecology and spatial organisation of cats through direct visual observations. |
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