Trophy Hunting and Possible Source-Sink Dynamics in Protected Areas: Insights from Trophy Size and Offtake Patterns in Southeast Zimbabwe

Table 1

Linear regression model parameter estimates of the mean trophy size trends for selected wildlife species in Malapati Safari Area for period 2007–2014. Significant trends (p < 0.05) are indicated in italic.

Species	N	R^2		t-statistic	P value
African elephant	44	0.418	1.95 ± 0.94	2.07	0.020
Cape buffalo	89	0.799	-3.17 ± 0.64	-5.31	0.003
Greater kudu	31	0.004	0.20 ± 1.15	0.28	0.778
Leopard	15	0.626	0.22 ± 0.07	3.17	0.019