Hunting among Moka Bubis in Bioko: dynamics of faunal exploitation at the village level

Colell, Montserrat; Maté, Carmen; Fa, John E.

doi:10.1007/bf00129668

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“…Therefore, the values calculated here are probably an underestimate of the human impact on the monkey population in the entire Park. The percentage of monkeys as prey items is high compared to other areas (Colell et al 1994). However, the poachers appear to have supplied good estimates in the questionnaire, as long-term data (1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983) on game found with poachers caught in the Park reveal similar percentages (58%; n=1,988; Hoppe-Dominik 1995).…”

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Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana , adjust their anti-predator response behaviour to human hunting strategies

Bshary¹

2001

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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In Ta National Park, Ivory Coast, humans with guns hunt monkeys for their meat. The poachers imitate animal calls to feign the presence of eagles or leopards, two predators to which monkeys react with high calling rates and approach. In the presence of humans, monkeys become silent and move off. A small area of the park is now avoided by poachers, due to the establishment of a field project on chimpanzees in 1979. This offered the opportunity to investigate whether sudden changes in predation pressure lead to a rapid alteration in prey behaviour. Playback experiments, using groups of Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana, as subjects, revealed that the poachers' strategy works well in the home range of the habituated chimpanzee group. However, monkeys which are frequently exposed to poachers are rarely fooled by the imitations. Adaptive discrimination abilities can thus be acquired or lost within the lifespan of individual monkeys.

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Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana , adjust their anti-predator response behaviour to human hunting strategies

Bshary¹

2001

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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“…The anticipated financial gain for a hunter from the sale of three such animals (US$35-50 each) is approximately equivalent to the monthly salary of a locally employed permanent worker. High harvest rates of largebodied diurnal animals have been reported from studies in other tropical forests (Colell et al 1994;Bodmer 1994). In this study, differences in harvest rates of target species also appear to be influenced by market demand and consumer preferences for particular bushmeat.…”

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Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence Hunting and Commercial Harvesting in Papua (West New Guinea), Indonesia

2012

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It is well known that wild game provides a significant proportion of the dietary protein of the indigenous people of the eastern half of New Guinea (PNG), but almost nothing is known of its importance in the western half (the Indonesian province of Papua or Irian Jaya). We quantified hunting effort, harvest rates and wild meat consumption and sale in the Jayapura region of north-east Papua through interviews with 147 hunters from 21 villages and meal surveys in 93 households. Ten species of mammals, seven species of birds and at least two species of reptiles were harvested in our study area, but the introduced wild pig and rusa deer were the major target species. Hunting in our study area has shifted from a purely subsistence activity towards a more commercial form at least partly due to the emergence of markets created by Indonesian transmigrants. Although the hunting of non-indigenous and certain native species might be sustainable, the maintenance of populations of large threatened species will require sensitive management.

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“…In total, we compiled data from 29 sources across 43 sites ( Fig. 1) for 59 samples (Sabater Pi 1981, Ichikawa 1983, Colell et al 1994, Kano and Asato 1994, Amubode 1995, Dethier 1995, Kitanishi 1995, Jeanmart 1998, Muchaal and Ngandjui 1999, Noss 1999 The majority of data were identified to the species (90.3%) or genus (92.7%) level. Of these, 99.5% were identified to at least class and included in our analyses.…”

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Indicators for wild animal offtake: methods and case study for African mammals and birds

Ingram¹,

Coad²,

Collen³

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ABSTRACT. Unsustainable exploitation of wild animals is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and to millions of people depending on wild meat for food and income. The international conservation and development community has committed to implementing plans for sustainable use of natural resources and has requested development of monitoring systems of bushmeat offtake and trade. Although offtake monitoring systems and indicators for marine species are more developed, information on harvesting terrestrial species is limited. Building on approaches developed to monitor exploitation of fisheries and population trends, we have proposed two novel indicators for harvested terrestrial species: the mean body mass indicator (MBMI) assessing whether hunters are relying increasingly on smaller species over time, as a measure of defaunation, by tracking body mass composition of harvested species within samples across various sites and dates; and the offtake pressure indicator (OPI) as a measure of harvesting pressure on groups of wild animals within a region by combining multiple time series of the number of harvested individuals across species. We applied these two indicators to recently compiled data for West and Central African mammals and birds. Our exploratory analyses show that the MBMI of harvested mammals decreased but that of birds rose between 1966/1975 and 2010. For both mammals and birds the OPI increased substantially during the observed time period. Given our results, time-series data and information collated from multiple sources are useful to investigate trends in body mass of hunted species and offtake volumes. In the absence of comprehensive monitoring systems, we suggest that the two indicators developed in our study are adequate proxies of wildlife offtake, which together with additional data can inform conservation policies and actions at regional and global scales.

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Hunting among Moka Bubis in Bioko: dynamics of faunal exploitation at the village level

Cited by 65 publications

References 4 publications

Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana , adjust their anti-predator response behaviour to human hunting strategies

Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana , adjust their anti-predator response behaviour to human hunting strategies

Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence Hunting and Commercial Harvesting in Papua (West New Guinea), Indonesia

Indicators for wild animal offtake: methods and case study for African mammals and birds

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