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Table 14.4. Larger mammal sp ecies associated with easten Ar ican orests
Primates
Black-and-white
colobus monkey
Red colobus monkey
Colobus guereza
Northen and high alitudes
Colobus angolensis
Southern and low alitudes
Procolobus rufomitratus*
Tana River
Procolobus goronorum*
Uzungwa Mts
Procolobus kirkii*
Zanzibar
Cercocebus galeritus galeritus*
Tana River
Cercocebus galeritus sanjei*
Uzungwa Mts
Cercopithecus mitis
Widespread
Ga/ago zanzibaricus
Widespread, coastal
Ga/ago senegalensis
Widespread, elsewhere
Mangabey
Blue monkey
Gala go
Bovidae
Ader's duiker
Abbot's duiker
Red duiker
Blue duiker
Suni
Bushback
Buffalo
Cphalophus aesi*
Zanzibar, South coastal Kenya
Cphalophus spadx*
Kilimanjaro, Uzungwa
Cphalophus haoyi
and
Cphalophus natalensis
Widespread, many races
Cphalophus monticola
Widespread, many races
Neotragus moschatus
Widespread
Tragelophus sciptus
Widespread
Sy nceus cfer
Major mountain forests
Squirrels
Funisiuus lucier
Block mts
Funisiurus palliatus
Kenya
Helios uo brachium
Lowland forests
Anomalurus erbianus
Block mts
Others
Leopard
Elephant
Hyrax
Panthera pardus
Widespread
Loxoonta ar icana
Kilimanjaro, Uzungwa
Dendrohyrx validus
Patchy
Dendrohyrax arboreus
Patchy
No te:
*
Indicates a species of threatened or endangered status.
Distribuion and consevation inormaion as follows: Colobines, Rodgers (1981); Primates and mammals in
general, Kingdon (1982); Bovidae, Rodgers
&
Swai (1988).
et al. (1981) and Rodgers et al. (l 985b) are based
on interpretaion of LandSat imagery; both
studies were designed to give baseline data for
future monitoring.
On a smaller scale, for individual forests and
regions, there are esimates of rates of deoresta-
ion. In Tanzania, air photograph interpretaion
has showed a loss of forest area for several
individual reserves. In the period 1955-79
Magombera FR, a groundwater lowland forest of
value for primates and endemic plant taxa,
decreased from 15.1 to 10.5
m2
(Rodgers,
Homewood
&
Hall, 1979). Rau FR near Moshi
decreased from 26
m2
of lowland evergreen for-
est to 6
m2
(Rodgers, 1983). Non-coral rag for-
est on Mafia has been totally desroyed (Rodgers
et al., 1988). Larger scale studies in the Usam-
baras show esimated forest cover reducion in
this centuy of some 60% (Stuart, 1983). Rich
lowland forest in Pangani Disrict, well collected
by Faulkner, has been greatly desroyed (W. D.
Hawthone, personal communicaion). Lake
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