Pangolin Research Mundulea
Pangolin Survival Strategies in Dry-land Savannahs: a Pilot Study in Namibia
Bruno Nebe & Paul Rankin
11.12.10
Background on Pangolins
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( This blog is written in chapters with the latest posts last at the end Click here to jump to the start of the fieldwork or Click here...
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Our Research Project's Goals
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The motivation for gathering data on the behaviour, habitat and survival strategies of the Cape pangolin in different environments is that ...
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Research Challenges
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The technical problems in designing a tracking solution for pangolins include: The pangolin’s body shape, its hard sharp scales and movemen...
Mundulea - An Ideal Research Bed
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The Mundulea Private Nature Reserve in the Otavi mountains is roughly 120 square kilometres of prime Montane bushveldt set in the unspoil...
Some Tracking Technology Options
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The Namibian Ministry of the Environment and Tourism (MET) has formally approved our application for permission to conduct this research and...
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Start of Fieldwork Sept. 2010, a visit to Narrec
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After extensively testing the GSM and GPS functions of the three 'combination' tracking units made by Juergen Perthold, Paul arrived...
Basic Training in RF Telemetry
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Using a Yagi directional antenna on a radio receiver tuned to the frequency of a small RF transmitter attached to an animal or bird is a sta...
Pangolin tracking in Mundulea- expert assistance
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Pangolin tend to be solitary, one individual ranging over several sqr. km and their spoor are hard to track through undergrowth, as they wal...
Mapping Pangolin Feeding Sites in Mundulea
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A latitude and longitude-gridded GPS map of the Mundulea Reserve, incorporating accurate boundaries, roads and feature coordinates, both fro...
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Results of Pangolin Feeding Site Survey
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An overview GPS map using Garmin's MapSource software of all the pangolin feeding sites identified in the four sandy zones surveyed in M...
Discovering Our First Pangolin, Oct 30th 2010
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As luck would have it, on October 30th just 3 weeks after Paul returned to the UK from his field trip, Tim was out walking when he spotted a...
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