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The interactions between humans and animals: the contribution of ethnozoology [PDF]
In this review paper, the variety of interactions established between human cultures and animals is approached through the perspective of ethnozoology.
Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto +1 more
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Number of Pages: 6Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Berry, James. F. +2 more
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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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Medicinal use of wild fauna by mestizo communities living near San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve (San Juan, Argentina) [PDF]
Background: Wild and domestic animals and their by-products are important ingredients in the preparation of curative, protective and preventive medicines. Despite the medicinal use of animals worldwide, this topic has received less attention than the use
Borghi, Carlos Eduardo +2 more
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Fantastic beasts and why to conserve them: animals, magic and biodiversity conservation [PDF]
There is a broad set of human beliefs, attitudes and behaviours around the issue of magical animals, referring to both mythical animals not recognized by science and extant animals that are recognized by science but have magical properties.
Abrahams +27 more
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SUBSISTENCE HUNTING FOR TURTLES IN NORTHWESTERN ECUADOR
We describe the subsistence exploitation of an entire turtle fauna in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. We collected first-hand accounts and witnessed a number of capture techniques used by rural Afroecuadorian and Chachi inhabitants of the Cayapas-Santiago ...
John L Carr +3 more
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Wild animals have traditionally been the main sources of protein available, if not the only, to numerous indigenous populations worldwide. However, greater access to markets, reduced availability or access to wildlife, and policies in support of ...
Claudileide Pereira dos Santos +7 more
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The Analysis of Existing Experience for the Ethnobotanical Information System [PDF]
Ethnobotanical researches reflect the conventional learning of a region. Over the previous decade, medical plants which used for healing indigenous people has become a significant notion among the people and impacted improvement of scientific and ...
Hamidova, L. F. (Laman)
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Introduction of Ethnozoology-a review
Interaction between human being civilizations and the animals in their environment is known as ethnozoology. It includes the classification and vernacular names of fauna, folklore awareness, and utilize of whole fauna. The importance of this information to our knowledge of the functions performed by fauna in human being civilization is the focus of ...
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