An investigation of social dynamics in Cape buffalo and implications for disease transmission at wildlife/domestic interfaces in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area

In this study, we investigated the consistency of patterns and drivers of fission-fusion dynamics across three populations of Cape buffalo, in different protected

The incidence dynamic was significantly explained by cattle incursion into the protected area (i.e., buffer zone of 3 km inside HNP) and not by contacts with buffalo or contacts

During 2008–2013, a total of 68 satellite or global po- sitioning system radio collars were deployed on African buffalo captured in southern Gonarezhou NP; in northern

To better understand the role of wildlife and livestock in maintaining and transmitting FMDV, we explored the transmission of FMD SAT2 virus between wildlife and livestock, at

populations (S.c. The two lineages likely expanded and diverged in the late to middle Pleistocene from an ancestral population located around the current-day

Methods: In order to address this gap, we analyzed 120 blood samples from buffalo herds for the presence of common tick-borne haemoparasites causing disease in livestock, collected

The southern African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer - Sparrman 1779) was chosen as a model to study the impact of population fragmentation on the genetic diversity of

The genetic characteristics of the viruses isolated in buffalo and their links with recent outbreaks suggest that buffalo in TFCAs act as a source of virus and that infected cattle