Study investigates impact of lions living alongside giraffe populations
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New research from the University of Bristol is calling for an urgent review into how populations of giraffes are managed in the wild when living alongside lions.
It is commonly accepted that lions are the only predators to pose a risk to giraffes on an individual basis but there has never been a study to investigate how the presence of lions impacts on the population as a whole.
Now, in the first study of its kind, published today in the journal PLOS One, Bristol PhD student Zoe Muller has fo...
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