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nan wrote:Tanzania... you want a point on a plan 0'
to give a name =O:
No, I just think you should say which dassie species that is ^0^

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I know only the name of the Mongooses =O:

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Back to page one, nan and you will know :-)


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Yellow-spotted rock Hyrax :-? =O:


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nan wrote:Yellow-spotted rock Hyrax :-? =O:
^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^ Now you know that you have seen this one, nan


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Vrystaat-dassies bedreig dalk 'n wildtuin-kolonie

Deur Mike van der Merwe
KLIPDASSIES wat van Bloemfontein ''uitgevoer'' is na 'n gebied wat
grens aan die suidelike deel van die Nasionale Krugerwildtuin, kan
moontlik 'n bedreiging inhou vir 'n geïsoleerde kolonie dassies wat
in dié deel van die wildtuin voorkom.
Hoewel dit tans nog onseker is of die sewentien dassies van
Bloemfontein van 'n ander spesie of subspesie is as dié in die
wildtuin, het die twee groepe dassies sowat 500 000 jaar gelede laas
dieselfde voorouers gehad.
Die Bloemfonteinse dassies is moontlik ook na ander dele van
Transvaal uitgevoer waar dassies is wat sowat twee miljoen jaar
gelede laas dieselfde voorouers as hulle gehad het.
Mej. Paulette Prinsloo, 'n student van die
Soogdiernavorsingsinstituut (SNI) aan die Universiteit van Pretoria
(UP) wat navorsing oor die dassies doen, meen daar sal beslis met die
''Bloemfonteinse dassies'' plan gemaak moet word as die genetiese
integriteit van die dassies in die wildtuin beskerm moet word. Die
twee groepe klipdassies lyk wel morfologies dieselfde, maar die
''twee vorme'' kan moontlik geneties van mekaar verskil.
Omdat dit moeilik sal wees om die dassies in hokke te vang, sal
hulle moontlik geskiet moet word. Al die ingevoerde dassies sal
verwyder moet word omdat net een van hulle moontlik reuse-skade aan
die genetiese integriteit van die ander dassies kan aanrig.
''Die sewentien dassies is minder as 'n kilometer van die
kolonie dassies by Maqili in die wildtuin vrygelaat. Van hulle is
later reeds nader aan die wildtuin opgemerk.
''Ons weet ook nie hoe lank die dassies reeds in die gebied is
nie en die moontlikheid bestaan dat sommige van hulle reeds
kleintjies gekry het.
''Net 'n rivier wat in die winter opdroog en 'n treinspoor skei
die dassies van mekaar. Die rivier het reeds byna opgedroog en daarom
moet hulle so gou moontlik verwyder word.''
Volgens mej. Prinsloo het sy reeds sowat 'n maand gelede aan die
Krugerwildtuin verslag gedoen oor die bevindinge van haar navorsing.
Sy weet nog nie wat die wildtuin aan die saak gaan doen nie.
'' 'n Oplossing sal wees om die dassies te verwyder en eerder
van die dassies in die wildtuin in dié gebied te vestig. Dit is egter
ook nog nie bekend hoeveel dassies in die kolonie in die wildtuin is
nie.
''Ek gaan nou nog navorsing doen oor die verskille tussen die
dassies by Bloemfontein en in ander dele van die land en dié wat in
Transvaal voorkom,'' het mej. Prinsloo gesê.



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Loosely translated, in 1991 some nitwit brought Free State dassies to what is now Mthethomusha, just across the border from Maqili hill in Southern Kruger, where the weird relict dassie population is! The dassies started spreading nearer to the Park...it is just across the railway and stream, and it was suggested the invaders be "removed" to prevent genetic contamination....although the Maqili dassies must be so inbred by now that should be a project in itself! :-)

Don't know what happened after that? -O-


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Are there still dassies in Southern Kruger?


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Can't see why not? That is the most recent I could get? Just the one area over centuries, though... :-?


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Augrabies

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Cute rock-climber :-)


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