title: The decline of the Serengeti Thomson's gazelle population.
abstract: The population of Thomson's gazelles in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania has declined by almost two thirds over a 13 year period. In the early 1970s, numbers stood at 0.66 million animals but had decreased to less than 0.25 million animals in 1985 as estimated by 5 different censuses using two different counting techniques. Predation, interspecific competition and disease are all factors that could have contributed to this decline, and at least one of these factors, predation, could now prevent the Thomson's gazelle population from increasing.
authors.affiliation: Frankfurt Zoological Society, Serengeti National Park, c/o Tanzania National Parks, P.O. Box 3134, Arusha, Tanzania.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borner
authors.affiliation: Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute, P.O. Box 661, Arusha, Tanzania.|Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Madingley, CB3 8AA, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: FitzGibbon
authors.affiliation: Frankfurt Zoological Society, Serengeti National Park, c/o Tanzania National Parks, P.O. Box 3134, Arusha, Tanzania.
authors.forename: Mo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borner
authors.affiliation: Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute, P.O. Box 661, Arusha, Tanzania.|Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Madingley, CB3 8AA, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Caro
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, CB2 3DX, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Lindsay
authors.affiliation: Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute, P.O. Box 661, Arusha, Tanzania.|Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EH9 3JT, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, CB3 0ES, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Holt
keywords: Disease; Interspecific competition; Predation; Serengeti population decline; Thomson's gazelles