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Ethnozoology: A Brief Introduction

open access: yesEthnobiology and Conservation, 2015
Connections between animals and humans date back thousands of years, and cultures all over the world have developed characteristic ways of interacting with the regional fauna over time. Human communities have accumulated a huge store of knowledge about animals through the centuries (passed from generation to generation, largely through oral traditions)
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves   +1 more
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The interactions between humans and animals: the contribution of ethnozoology [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2007
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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Chionactis palarostris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Beaman, Kent R.   +3 more
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The Analysis of Existing Experience for the Ethnobotanical Information System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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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Global synthesis reveals that ecosystem degradation poses the primary threat to the world's medicinal animals

open access: yesEcology 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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Therapeutic and prophylactic uses of invertebrates in contemporary Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Zootherapeutic practices in ethnoveterinary medicine are important in many socio-cultural environments around the world, particularly in developing countries, and they have recently started to be inventoried and studied in Europe.
Francisco Amich   +3 more
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SUBSISTENCE HUNTING FOR TURTLES IN NORTHWESTERN ECUADOR

open access: yesActa Biológica Colombiana, 2014
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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Medicinal use of wild fauna by mestizo communities living near San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve (San Juan, Argentina) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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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Introduction of Ethnozoology-a review

open access: yes, 2022
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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La importancia de las diversas, complementarias y comparativas miradas en la investigación de las interacciones entre los humanos y la fauna

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2017
Latin America covers one of the regions with the greatest biodiversity in the world, where, for millennia and up to the present time, human societies have developed a complex and close biological and cultural relationship with animals.
Elizabeth Ramos Roca, Eduardo Corona
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