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Sea turtles of the Benin coast: Pressure and ethnozoology
Global Ecology and ConservationSea turtles are threatened by factors associated with overfishing. To identify these factors, we investigated the fishing pressure and the ethnozoological knowledge of turtles along the Benin coast. A questionnaire-based field survey was undertaken in 48 villages on the Atlantic coast through structured interviews.
Maximin Djondo +4 more
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Ethnozoological use of primates in northeastern India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2021 Ethnozoological practices to cure various diseases have a long history. Communities that reside near the forest collect wild animals and their derivatives to prepare medicines and get relief from diseases. Northeastern India is home to many tribes with vast traditional ethnobiological knowledge, and there are many reports of zootherapeutic uses in the ...
null Deborah Daolapogy +2 more
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Welcome to Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine [PDF]
, 2005 Ethnobiology is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences. Ethnobiology aims at investigating culturally based biological and environmental knowledge, cultural perception and ...
Leimar Price, L. +2 more
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Zootherapy in the Amazon: green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus ) fat as a natural medicine to treat wounds [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2017 Zootherapy (the use of the therapeutic potential of animals) is at least 6,000 years old, and has been kept active throughout generations until modern days. Animal fat is commonly used in the zootherapeutic folk medicine from South America, specially the
Erika SOUZA +3 more
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Shameless Creatures: An Ethnozoology of the Amazon River Dolphin
Ethnology, 1999 The rural population of Brazilian Amazonia of mixed African, European, and indigenous ancestry possesses a rich corpus of beliefs and practices concerning the Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis). Some of these dolphins are believed capable of transforming into human beings at night and causing harm to humans on land.
Mark A. Cravalho
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Northerly-Outlying Records of Two Species of Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 (Excerpt) The Grand Traverse Region of Lower Michigan is of special interest zoo- geographically in that it includes the northernmost known localities for various species of organisms characteristic of the Carolinian Biotic Province (Douglass 1977, 1983;
Douglass, John F
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Dipsosaurus, D. dorsalis [PDF]
, 1992 Number of Pages: 6Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Hulse, Arthur C.
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ETHNOZOOLOGY- FAUNAL DIVERSITY IN FOLKLORES OF SHEKHAWATI, RAJASTHAN
International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAHBackground- The body of knowledge, practice, and belief regarding the relationships between living things, including humans, and their environment that has been passed down through the generations via cultural transmission and evolved through adaptive processes is known as traditional ecological knowledge. It is also considered to be a part of cultural
Sunaina Soni +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2021 Although overexploitation threatens some high-profile medicinal animals, little is known about global patterns in the use of - and threats to - medicinal animals.
Monica L. Short, Chris T. Darimont
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, 2001 Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Beaman, Kent R. +3 more
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