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Conservation and behavior of Africa's "Big Five"

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• 作者：

  Tim CARO Jason RIGGIO

• 摘要：

  We?examine?the?conservation?status?of?Africa's?"Big?Five":?lion,?leopard,?buffalo,?black?and?white?rhinoceros?and?elephant,?and?the?role?of?behavioral?knowledge?in?their?conservation.?Efforts?to?conserve?these?flagship?species?consist?of?in?situ?conservation,?captive?breeding?and?reintroductions.?With?a?few?exceptions,?we?find?limited?evidence?that?knowledge?of?behavior?informs?conservation?programs?targeted?at?these?species.?For?management?in?the?wild,?knowledge?of?infanticide?and?ranging?can?provide?guidelines?for?realistic?hunting?quotas?and?corridors?between?protected?areas,?respectively.?For?ex?situ?and?reintroduction?programs,?behavioral?knowledge?is?chiefly?focused?on?improved?animal?husbandry.?Despite?a?formidable?understanding?of?these?species'?behavior,?the?practicalities?of?using?such?knowledge?may?be?diminished?because?exploitation?of?these?species?is?so?forceful?and?the?bulk?of?efforts?aimed?at?conserving?these?species?(and?indeed?most?other?African?species)?are?primarily?in?situ?where?behaviorally?driven?interventions?are?limited.?Our?comparative?findings?suggest?that?behavior?has?been?of?rather?narrow?use?in?the?conservation?of?these?flagship?species?[Current?Zoology?60?(4):?486--499,?2014].

• 关键词：

  保护作用 行为 非洲 物种保护 就地保护 人工繁殖 知识 管理层

• 作者单位：

  Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

• 基金项目：

  Acknowledgements We thank Jessie Godfrey, Matt Hayward and an anonymous reviewer for comments on this manuscript.

• 来源期刊：

  动物学报(英文版)

• 年，卷(期)：

  2014004