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Pietersen, D. 2010. Ground pangolins and electric fences. In: Ferguson, K. and Hanks, J (Eds). Fencing impacts:  A review of environmental, social and economic impacts of game and veterinary fencing in Africa with particular reference to the Great Limpopo and Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Areas. Pretoria, Mammal Research Institute, pp. 154-157.

Pietersen, D.W. 2013. Behavioural ecology and conservation biology of ground pangolinsSmutsia temminckii in the Kalahari Desert. MSc Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. 

Boakye, M.K., Pietersen, D.W., Kotze, A., Dalton, D.L. and Jansen, R. 2014. Ethnomedicinal use of African pangolins by traditional medical practitioners in Sierra Leone. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine10: 76. DOWNLOAD

Du Toit, Z., Grobler, J.P., Kotze, A., Jansen, R., Brettschneider, H. and Dalton, D. 2014. The complete mitochondrial genome of Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii; Smuts, 1832) and phylogenetic position of the Pholidota (Weber, 1904). Gene551: 49-54. DOWNLOAD

Du Toit, Z. 2014. Population genetic structure of the ground pangolin based on mitochondrial genomes. MSc Thesis, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. DOWNLOAD

Pietersen, D.W., McKechnie, A.E. and Jansen, R. 2014. Home range, habitat selection and activity patterns of an arid-zone population of Temminck’s ground pangolins,Smutsia temminckii. African Zoology 49(2): 265–276. DOWNLOAD

Pietersen, D.W., McKechnie, A.E. and Jansen, R., 2014. A review of the anthropogenic threats faced by Temminck’s ground pangolin,Smutsia temminckii, in southern Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 44(2): 167–178. DOWNLOAD

Boakye, M.K., Pietersen, D.W., Kotze, A., Dalton, D.L. and Jansen, R. 2015. Knowledge and uses of African pangolins as a source of traditional medicine in Ghana. PLoS ONE10(1): e0117199. DOWNLOAD

Du Toit, Z, Grobler, JP, Kotze, A, Jansen, R & Dalton, DL (2016). Scale samples from Temminck’s ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii): a non-invasive source of DNA. Conservation Genetics Resources DOI 10.1007/s12686-016-0602-3

Choo, S.W., et al.  (2016). Pangolin genomes and the evolution of mammalian scales and immunity. Genome Research, 26(10), pp.1312-1322.

Mwale, M. et al. (2016). The forensic application of DNA barcoding for identification of illegally traded African pangolin scales. Genome, 10.1139/gen-2016-0144. DOWNLOAD

Challender, D.W.S. et al 2016. On scaling up pangolin conservation. TRAFFIC Bulletin 28(1): 19-21.

Boakye, M.K., Kotze, A., Dalton, D.L. and Jansen, R. 2016. Unravelling the pangolin bushmeat commodity chain and the extent of trade in Ghana. Human Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-016-9813-1. DOWNLOAD

Pietersen, D.W., Symes, C.T., Woodborne, S., McKechnie, A.E. and Jansen, R., 2016. Diet and prey selectivity of the specialist myrmecophage,Temminck’s Ground Pangolin. Journal of Zoology 298: 198-208. DOWNLOAD

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