Justine Atkins Tags A Bushbuck At Gorongosa National Park (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Justine Atkins Tags A Bushbuck At Gorongosa National Park

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Justine Atkins, a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, works with Paolo Tonecas, the park veterinarian of Gorongosa National Park, to collar and measure a bushbuck. Atkins and her colleagues hypothesized that the elimination of the leopards, wild dogs and hyenas during the Mozambican civil war had created a "landscape of fearlessness," where the formerly timid bushbuck now browsed freely -- to the detriment of the local vegetation.

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Justine Atkins, Princeton University

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