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Small-mammal hunting by two ethnic groups in north-western Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

E. Suárez ,
J. Stallings  and
L. Suárez
E. Suárez
Affiliation:
EcoCiencia, Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos, PO Box 17-12-257, Tamayo 1339 y Av., Colón, Quito, Ecuador.
J. Stallings
Affiliation:
CARE/Ecuador, 151 Ellis Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
L. Suárez
Affiliation:
EcoCiencia, Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos, PO Box 17-12-257, Tamayo 1339 y Av., Colón, Quito, Ecuador.
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A small-mammal hunting study was carried out in north-western Ecuador from October 1992 to October 1993, employing interview and trapping methods to document rodent and marsupial hunting by Chachi Indian and Afroecuadorian families. Based on 109 family interviews in 28 communities, it was determined that log-fall traps were used around family gardens and along forest trails. Afroecuadorian families used more than twice the number of traps than Chachis and trap lines of both ethnic groups were left open for approximately 6 days per trapping session. Chachi families left trap lines closed twice sas long as Afroecuadorian families. There were 857 individuals of seven rodent and four marsupial species trapped during the study, with Proechimys semispinosus representing more than 50 per cent of the small mammals trapped.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 35 - 42
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1995

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