• DOI:10.1111/ACV.12043
Corpus ID: 86614187

Trophy hunting in Africa: long‐term trends in antelope horn size

@article{Crosmary2013TrophyHI,
  title={Trophy hunting in Africa: long‐term trends in antelope horn size},
  author={William-Georges Crosmary and A. Loveridge and Henry Ndaimani and S. Lebel and V. Booth and S. C{\^o}t{\'e} and H. Fritz},
  journal={Animal Conservation},
  year={2013},
  volume={16},
  pages={648-660}
}

• William-Georges Crosmary, A. Loveridge, +4 authors H. Fritz
• Published 2013
• Biology
• Animal Conservation

Trophy hunting in ungulates may favour individuals with smaller horns. A decrease in horn/antler size may jeopardize the conservation potential of hunting areas, which would be a major concern in Africa where hunting zones represent over half of the total area of protected lands. We investigated horn length trends of harvested male impalas Aepyceros melampus, greater kudus Tragelaphus strepsiceros and sable antelopes Hippotragus niger, from 1974 to 2008 in Matetsi Safari Area, Zimbabwe. Horn… Expand

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