Food supply and poaching limit giraffe abundance in the Serengeti
Population Ecology
Open DOIGiraffe evidence area
Snaring & illegal killing
Wire snares, poaching, bushmeat, trafficking, trophy hunting.
40mapped records
29open-access records
6records with verification flag
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Corpus coverage
1999–2026
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Seasonal movements of giraffes in Niger
Journal of Tropical Ecology
Open DOIThree-gene PCR and high-resolution melting analysis for differentiating vertebrate species mitochondrial DNA for biodiversity research and complementing forensic surveillance
Scientific Reports
Open DOIEcology of desert-dwelling giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis in northwestern Namibia
The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney)
Migratory herds of wildebeests and zebras indirectly affect calf survival of giraffes
Ecology and Evolution
Open DOIAll the eggs in one basket: A countrywide assessment of current and historical giraffe population distribution in Uganda
Global Ecology and Conservation
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