Predation on tent tortoise and leopard tortoise hatchlings by the pale chanting goshawk in the Little Karoo
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Records of the bont tick, Amblyomma hebraeum, from the angulate tortoise, Chersina angulata, and the leopard tortoise, Geochelone pardalis.
A. hebraeum nymphae were found on 4 angulate tortoises and 13 leopard tortoises in the Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape Province. Adults of this species were collected for the 1st time from a leopard tortoise in the Mkuze Game Reserve, Natal. The significance of this finding, in relation to the normal host preferences of this tick, is briefly discussed.
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Journal of Zoology
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0254-1858
DOI: 10.1080/02541858.1992.11448257