Chapter 1 General introduction
... For example, in some areas of Africa farmers may saturate a goat or cow carcass with fast-acting poison, leave this out for hyenas to feed on during the night and in this way kill numerous hyenas simultaneously (Holekamp & Smale, 1992). This kind of mass poisoning as retaliation for livestock depred ...
... For example, in some areas of Africa farmers may saturate a goat or cow carcass with fast-acting poison, leave this out for hyenas to feed on during the night and in this way kill numerous hyenas simultaneously (Holekamp & Smale, 1992). This kind of mass poisoning as retaliation for livestock depred ...
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Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (Somali: Geeska Afrika, Oromo: Gaaffaa Afriikaa, Amharic: የአፍሪካ ቀንድ? yäafrika qänd, Arabic: القرن الأفريقي al-qarn al-'afrīqī, Tigrinya: ቀርኒ ኣፍሪቃ?) ( shortened to HOA; alternatively Somali Peninsula) is a peninsula in Northeast Africa. It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. The area is the easternmost projection of the African continent. Referred to in ancient and medieval times as Bilad al Barbar (""Land of the Berbers""), the Horn of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.It covers approximately 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi) and is inhabited by roughly 115 million people (Ethiopia: 96.6 million, Somalia: 10.4 million, Eritrea: 6.4 million, and Djibouti: 0.81 million). Regional studies on the Horn of Africa are carried out, among others, in the fields of Ethiopian Studies as well as Somali Studies.