Tương tác giữa động vật hoang dã và Chăn nuôi trong nước trong vùng nhiệt đới miệng núi lửa Ngorongoro và hệ sinh thái Serengeti lớn của cảng Đông Phi một số tập hợp động vật hoang dã đa dạng và quyến rũ nhất ở vùng nhiệt đới. Trong lĩnh vực này như trong các phần khác của châu Phi, doanh động vật hoang dã ngoài khu bảo vệ trong một phần mỗi năm và thường grazes các vùng đất tương tự như vật nuôi. Những rõ ràng cùng tồn tại của động vật hoang dã và động vật trong nước, mặc dù bề. | Chapter 8 Interactions between Wildlife and Domestic Livestock in the Tropics Johannes Foufopoulos Sonia Altizer and Andrew Dobson contents Introduction History of Livestock-Wildlife Interactions Types of Interactions and Impacts Genetic Interactions between Wildlife and Domestic Animals Competition Predation Exchange of Pathogens and Parasites between Wildlife and Livestock Pathogen Life History Characteristics and Mechanisms of Transmission The Dynamics of Pathogens Shared between Wild and Domestic Hosts General Approaches to Improving Wildlife and Livestock Health Discussion and Conclusions Factors Governing Livestock-Wildlife Interactions Potential Resolutions Adaptive Management and Mixed Herding Regimes References introduction The Ngorongoro Crater and the greater Serengeti ecosystem of East Africa harbor some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife assemblages in the tropics. In this 2003 by CRC Press LLC area as in other parts of Africa wildlife ventures outside protected parks during part of each year and commonly grazes the same lands as livestock. The apparent coexistence of wildlife and domestic animals although superficially peaceful poses complicated challenges for local people using the land. In the Ngorongoro area Masai tribe members who depend on domestic animals for their livelihoods face many problems associated with lion predation and disease and they themselves have caused dramatic losses for wildlife Rodgers and Homewood 1986 Homewood et al. 1987 . One historical avenue through which wildlife and farmers interact is pathogens such as rinderpest an exotic virus introduced into the area around the turn of the 20th century. This disease has had wide-ranging effects on both the Masai cattle and the local antelope populations triggering secondary changes on predators and native plant communities. This complex relationship between the local tribe their animals and the native wildlife is typical of sub-Saharan Africa and other tropical regions.
