By Judith A. Rudnai (auth.)
THE HABITAT Nairobi nationwide Park lies to the south-southeast of the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, the place the Athi Plains meet the japanese escarpment of the Rift Valley. those plains shape a part of the semi-arid highland plateau mendacity among the coast and the Rift Valley. either town itself, and the Park bordering it, are a gathering position of 2 commonly exact kinds of panorama and weather. whereas to the east-southeast are semi-arid plains with grasslands and scattered timber, the western-north western elements are greater, hilly, cooler, extra humid and aid lush forests. the mix of latitude-a little over one measure south of the Equator -and altitude-average of 1600 m. (5000-5500 ft.) -combine to provide Nairobi a so much equable weather the place the temperature varies in the course of the 12 months among approximately eleven levels and 27 levels centigrade (mean minimal and suggest greatest for 8 years). in spite of the fact that, massive adjustments are typically skilled inside of every day and an increase from 14 levels C at 0600 hours to 22 levels at 1100 hours isn't strange. Nairobi Park has a different focus of untamed animals dwelling of their ordinary habitat under 10 km. from the centre of a latest urban of part one million humans. the single interference with the common process occasions within the Park is that quite often required for the correct administration of a online game park, reminiscent of upkeep of roads and dams, and, during this specific case, partial fencing in the direction of the city.
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Fig. III-5 Day range and night routesRomola pridePer. 1 Average of 33 obs. It was thus not possible to correlate in a definite way hunting success with distance travelled. The conclusions drawn are therefore only tentative. Table III-2 shows all the nights observed (within the limitations stated above) grouped according to distances travelled. In nine cases (2 I ' 4 % of total) there was less than o' 5 km. displacement. In five of these cases the pride was on a kill and did not move at all throughout the night.
It was observed in all age and sex categories under various conditions. All the instances when it occurred can be grouped under two main headings: (I) excitement and (2) conflicting motivation. (I) Excitement: tail flicking was frequently observed during mating. The male jerked up his tail once or several times, usually after dismounting, very rarely before copulation. The female on the other hand performed this movement usually before copulation when it may easily be confused with the female's lifting of the tail as an invitation to copulation (Chapter VI), the difference being that the latter is performed as a lifting movement, up and sideways, and the former as a sudden jerking action straight upwards.
Cooper, 1942), and may occur as often as every forty-five minutes. Whilst communal roaring does occur in lions in the wild, it is by no means as frequent or regular an occurrence as these observations would suggest. Whilst with captive lions at least one other individual almost invariably joins in the roaring, group roaring was observed only infrequently during this study and was heard almost exclusively between sunset and sunrise. The most frequent and regular group activities were greeting and grooming sessions.