Human–African buffalo conflicts 107 Conflicts of interest None.
Ethical standards The involvement of human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, and other- wise abided by the Oryx guidelines on ethical standards. A permit was obtained from the relevant wildlife authority prior to fieldwork. All interviewees gave their informed verbal consent prior to being in- cluded in the survey. At the beginning of the interviews, we informed respondents that they could seek clarification at any time during the interview. We anonymized the respondents by not asking for their names and assigning a number to each questionnaire.
Data availability Data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author (KMH) upon reasonable request.
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