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Animal Translocations: What are they and why do we do them?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Seddon, Philip J. Strauss, Willem Maartin Innes, John |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | For as long as people have been moving from one place to another, which is as long as humans have been ‘human’, animals and plants have been moved with them, often hidden, unnoticed or ignored, but also as valued cargo. These so-called ‘ethnotramps’ include economically and culturally favoured species such as deer, macaque, civets, wallabies, cassowaries and wild-caught songbirds that were commonly carried around with humans (Heinsohn, 2001). The variety of animals shown to have been translocated by prehistoric human colonists has been described as ‘astonishing’, with archaeological evidence of numerous and widespread human-mediated introductions as far back as tens of millennia, during the Pleistocene (Grayson, 2001). For example, it has been shown that people moved wild animals from the New Guinea mainland |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 32 |
| Page Count | 32 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444355833.ch1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/62/14443615/1444361562-50.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444355833.ch1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
