دورية أكاديمية
Human procurement of meat from lion (Panthera leo) kills: Costs of disturbance and implications for carnivore conservation.
العنوان: | Human procurement of meat from lion (Panthera leo) kills: Costs of disturbance and implications for carnivore conservation. |
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المؤلفون: | White PA; Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America., Bertola LD; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.; Leo Foundation, Wageningen, The Netherlands., Kariuki K; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, RA Leiden, The Netherlands., de Iongh HH; Leo Foundation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, RA Leiden, The Netherlands. |
المصدر: | PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Aug 14; Vol. 19 (8), pp. e0308068. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 14 (Print Publication: 2024). |
نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
اللغة: | English |
بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE |
أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science |
مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Lions* , Meat* , Conservation of Natural Resources*/economics , Predatory Behavior*, Animals ; Humans ; Africa ; Hunting ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Animals, Wild |
مستخلص: | In Africa, humans and large carnivores compete over access to resources, including prey. Disturbance by humans to kills made by carnivores, often for purposes of obtaining all or portions of the carcass, constitutes a form of human-wildlife conflict. However the occurrence of this practice, known as human kleptoparasitism, and its impact on carnivores has received little scientific attention. We obtained expert opinions from African lion researchers and stakeholders via a standardized questionnaire to characterize the geographic extent and frequency of human kleptoparasitism as it occurs in modern times. Our survey found modern human kleptoparasitism on kills made by lions, and possibly other large carnivores in Africa, to be geographically more widespread than previously reported. Meat lost to humans requires carnivores to hunt and kill additional prey thereby causing stress, increasing their energetic costs and risks of natural injury, and exposing them to risk of direct injury or death from human usurpers. Because of their conspicuous behaviors and tendency towards killing large-bodied prey, lions are particularly susceptible to humans detecting their kills. While human kleptoparasitism was geographically widespread, socio-economic factors influenced the frequency of occurrence. Prey type (wild game or domestic livestock) influenced human attitudes towards meat theft; ownership allows for legal recovery of livestock carcasses, while possessing wild game meat is mostly illegal and may incur penalties. Meat theft was associated with other illegal activities (i.e., illegal mining) and most prevalent among people of low income, including underpaid game scouts. Despite quantifiable costs to carnivores of human disturbance to their kills, the majority of experts surveyed reported a lack of knowledge on this practice. We propose that human disturbance at kills, especially loss of prey through human kleptoparasitism, constitutes an important anthropogenic threat that may seriously impact energy budgets of individual lions and other scavengers when meat and carcasses are removed from the ecosystem, and that the costs incurred by carnivores warrants further investigation. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2024 White et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.) |
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تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20240814 Date Completed: 20240814 Latest Revision: 20240817 |
رمز التحديث: | 20240817 |
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC11324114 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0308068 |
PMID: | 39141605 |
قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
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DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0308068 |