Local community perception towards bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Caves in South central Mindanao, Philippines: Threats and Implication for conservation

Tanalgo, Krizler Cejuela; Teves, Reggie D.; Salvaña, Florence Roy P.; Baleva, Ranjiv E.; Tabora, John Aries G.

doi:10.2461/wbp.2016.12.2

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“…Consequently, we identify the deconstruction of the collective imaginary about the bat as a threat to humans as a focus of relevant conservation intervention. This result is consistent with the "disease avoidance" hypothesis [8,9,13,16,18,19]. Fortunately, the most extreme negative behaviors are the easiest to change, such as Item 31, "bats should be exterminated" or Item 32, "we should attack bats".…”

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“…Bats provide important ecosystem services such as pollination, seed dispersion, and pest suppression [12]. Nevertheless, society does not recognize the benefits of bats for the ecosystem [13][14][15][16]. Worse still, bats have often had to deal with the consequences of human misconceptions about them, and our irrational fears [17].…”

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“…In recent decades they have become highly threatened due to anthropogenic disturbances (habitat loss, destruction of refuges, and alteration of trophic structure). The "disease avoidance" hypothesis indicates that we fear bats because they disgust us; we associate them with dirt and the propagation of disease [8,9,13,16,18,19]. This situation has been aggravated as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which they have been a focus of media attention.…”

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Design and Psychometric Properties of the BAtSS: A New Tool to Assess Attitudes towards Bats

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Álvarez

Boso

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Despite the benefits that bats offer the ecosystem, these animals are feared and attacked. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated this situation. Today there is an urgent need to address the human-bat conflict to develop conservation policies. Understanding peoples’ attitudes towards bats are critical for this process. This study aimed to design the Bats Attitudes Standard Scale (BAtSS) and to analyze its psychometric properties. We developed an initial version of the scale in which we established the content validity; we analyzed the items and structure in a pilot sample. In the next phase, we examined psychometric properties in a sample of 1639 Chileans. The final BAtSS consists of 34 Likert-type items configured in an oblique-hierarchical structure of four factors (scientistic, positivistic, negativistic, and myths) and three facets (emotional negativistic, behavioral negativistic, and cognitive negativistic). It presents adequate internal consistency, and the analysis of concurrent validity confirms the scale’s capacity to discriminate between groups. Women and participants with a lower level of education are more negativistic and less positivistic. People with a higher level of education have a less mythological view of bats. We also analyzed the items under the assumptions of item response theory (IRT).

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Design and Psychometric Properties of the BAtSS: A New Tool to Assess Attitudes towards Bats

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Boso

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“…Individuals are classi ed differentially into emotional, behavioural and cognitive negative attitudes, allowing different negativistic pro les to be identi ed based on the combinations of the scores in the three sub-scales. This is a particularly important contribution in the eld of conservation, since these attitudes are related with aggressive behaviour, support for population control strategies and the killing of bats (Fagan et al, 2018;Reid, 2016;Shapiro et al, 2020;Tanalgo et al, 2016). Detailed knowledge of negativistic individuals can help in the development of more relevant prevention and intervention strategies.…”

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Design and psychometric properties of BAtSS: A new tool to assess human attitudes towards bats.

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Álvarez²,

Boso³

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Despite the benefits that bats offer the ecosystem, these animals are feared due to mythological beliefs and their association with dirt and disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated this situation, exacerbating the already habitual attacks on these creatures. Today there is an urgent need to address the human-bat conflict in order to develop conservation policies. Understanding peoples' attitudes towards bats is a key part of this process. The object of this study was to design the Bats Attitudes Standard Scale (BAtSS) and analyse its psychometric properties. We developed an initial version of the scale in which we established the content validity; we analysed the items and structure in a pilot sample. In the next phase, we analysed psychometric properties in a sample of 1639 Chilean people. The final BAtSS consists of 34 Likert-type items configured in an oblique-hierarchical structure of 4 factors (Scientistic, Positivistic, Negativistic and Myths) and 3 facets (Negativistic-Emotional, Negativistic-Behavioural and Negativistic-Cognitive). It presents adequate internal consistency and the analysis of concurrent validity confirms the capacity of the scale to discriminate between groups. Women and participants with a lower level of education are more Negativistic and less Positivistic. People with a higher level of education have a less mythological view of bats. We also analysed the items which would be more/less difficult to change under the assumptions of Item Response Theory (IRT). Finally, BAtSS is a robust tool to assess the human attitudes and could help to understand and solve human-wildlife conflicts and therefore, improving the conservation actions

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“…According to the online sellers, most bats originated from Asia and especially Indonesia, where the over-exploitation of wildlife for human consumption is severe (18, 19,[26][27][28][29][30]. This has been well-documented in Sulawesi where hunting rather than deforestation was identified as the primary cause of wildlife declines on this island.…”

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Bat E-Commerce: Insights Into the Extent and Potential Implications of This Dark Trade

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Little is known about the global bat souvenir trade despite previous research efforts into bat harvest for bushmeat. We screened eBay listings of bats in Australia, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom and USA to assess the nature and extent of the online offers. A total of 237 listings were retrieved in between the 11th and 25th of May 2020 with a median price per item of US$38.50 (range: US$8.50–2,500.00). Items on offer were mostly taxidermy (61.2%) or skull (21.1%) specimens. Overall, 32 different species of bat were advertised, most of which (n = 28) are listed as “Least Concern” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. One species (Nycteris javanica) is classified as “Vulnerable” and one (Eidolon helvum) as “Near Threatened.” Pteropus spp. specimens were the most expensive specimens on offer and the conservations status of these species may range from “Critically Endangered” to “Data Deficient” by IUCN and the entire genus is listed in the Appendix II by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). However, the exact species concerned, and their respective conservation status, could not be confirmed based on the listings' photos. The sourcing of bat was restricted to mostly South-East Asian countries (a third of items sourced from Indonesia) and to two African countries. Our survey revealed that the online offer of bat products is diverse, abundant, and facilitated by worldwide sellers although most offered bats species are from South-East Asia. With a few exceptions, the species on offer were of little present conservation concern, however, many unknowns remain on the potential animal welfare, biosecurity, legal implications, and most importantly public health risks associated with this dark trade.

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Local community perception towards bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Caves in South central Mindanao, Philippines: Threats and Implication for conservation

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Design and Psychometric Properties of the BAtSS: A New Tool to Assess Attitudes towards Bats

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Design and psychometric properties of BAtSS: A new tool to assess human attitudes towards bats.

Bat E-Commerce: Insights Into the Extent and Potential Implications of This Dark Trade

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