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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

du Toit, JT

BSc(Hons)(Cape Town) PhD(Witwatersrand) - Professor and Director: Mammal Research Institute

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Telephone number: 012 420 3776
Fax number: 012 420 2534
E-mail address: jtdutoit@zoology.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Stokke S, du Toit JT: 2002. Sexual segregation in habitat use by elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 40, pp 360-371.

Butler JRA, du Toit JT: 2002. Diet of free-ranging domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) in rural Zimbabwe: Implications for wild scavengers on the periphery of wildlife reserves. Animal Conservation, 5 / ISI, pp 29-37.

du Toit JT: 2002. Wildlife harvesting guidelines for community-based wildlife management: A southern African perspective. Biodiversity and Conservation, 11, pp 1403-1416.

Knobel D, du Toit JT, Bingham J: 2002. Development of a bait and baiting system for the delivery of oral rabies vaccine to free-ranging African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 38 (2), pp 352-362.

Slater K, du Toit JT: 2002. Seed dispersal by chacma baboons and syntopic ungulates in southern African savannas. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 32 (1) / Apr, pp 75-79.

Kock ND, Kampamba G, Mukaratirwa S, du Toit JT: 2002. Disease investigation in free-ranging Kafue lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis) on the Kafue Flats in Zambia. Veterinary Record, 151, pp 482-484.

Chapters in books:

du Toit JT: 2002. Sustainable wildlife utilization in Africa: A contest between scientific understanding and human nature. In Psychology of Sustainable Development, (10), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 197-207.

 

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