TABLE 6.
Risk factors associated with distance (near vs. far) of cattle from wildlife reported for ungulates and buffalo including odds ratios for univariate mixed models with farmer as a random effect.
| Risk factor | Ungulate |
Buffalo |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reports (n) | Near distance (%) | OR | 95% CI | Reports (n) | Near distance (%) | OR | 95% CI | |
| Location type | ||||||||
| Grazing area | 1879 | 13.9 | 1.0 | - | 399 | 9.8 | 1.0 | - |
| Watering area | 945 | 14.8 | 1.1 | (0.9–1.4) | 226 | 15.5 | 1.4 | (0.8–2.5) |
| Homestead | 77 | 32.5 | 2.0 | (1.1–3.6)** | 10 | 20.0 | 1.8 | (0.3–12.1) |
| Herd size | ||||||||
| 5–24 | 834 | 10.3 | 1.0 | - | 176 | 1.7 | 1.0 | - |
| 25–75 | 1040 | 10.5 | 1.3 | (0.4–3.9) | 227 | 2.6 | 1.5 | (0.3–7.3) |
| > 75 | 1027 | 22.6 | 3.7 | (1.1–12.8)* | 232 | 28.9 | 21.8 | (5.1–92.5)*** |
| Ungulates | ||||||||
| Buffalo | 635 | 12.0 | 1.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Uganda kob | 1257 | 14.9 | 1.6 | (1.2–2.1)** | - | - | - | - |
| Warthog | 525 | 16.4 | 1.4 | (1.2–2.0)*** | - | - | - | - |
| Waterbuck | 484 | 16.1 | 1.5 | (1.0–2.1)* | - | - | - | - |
p-value:
*
< 0.05;
**
< 0.01;
***
< 0.001.