Hunters and hunting across indigenous and colonist communities at the forest-agriculture interface: an ethnozoological study from the Peruvian Amazon

Table 2 Description of the prey items reported for the study communities

Scientific name	Common name (Spanish)	Relative reproductive strategy^±	Community*^∞	Successful hunting events (no. Indv./month/village)⁺	Harvest rate (H) (no. Indv./km/year)^α
Birds
Cairina moschata	Muscovy duck (sachapato)	r	D	1	0.06
Ortalis gutata	Speckled chachalaca (manacaraco)	K	I	1	0.06
Penelope sp.	Guan (pucacunga)	K	B, I	2	0.12
Tinamus sp.	Tinamous (perdiz)	r	G, I	2	0.12
Mammals
Aotus sp.	Night monkey (mono musmuqui)	K	E, B	2	0.12
Ateles sp.	Spider monkey (mono araña negro)	K	A, B, C, D	22	1.26
Cuniculus paca	Lowland paca (maja)	r	A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I	77	4.42
Dasypus sp.	Armadillo (carachupa)	r	A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I	19	1.09
Dasyprocta punctata	Black agouti (anuje)	r	A, D, H, I	13	0.75
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris	Capybara (ronsoco)	r	A	1	0.12
Mazama americana	Red brocket deer (venado)	K	B, C, D	18	1.03
Oreonax flavicauda	Woolly monkey (mono choro)	K	B	10	0.57
Pecari tajacu	Collared peccary (sajino)	K	B, C, D, G, I	12	0.70
Saimiri sp.	Squirrel monkey (mono huasa)	K	B, D	11	0.63
Speothos venaticus	Bush dog (manko)	K	E	1	0.06
Tapirus terrestris	Lowland tapir (sachavaca)	K	B	1	0.06
Tayassu pecari	White-lipped peccary (huangana)	K	C	1	0.06
Reptiles
Chelonoidis denticulata	Yellow-footed tortoise (motelo)	r	I	3	0.17
Total				197

^±Characterization based on Pianka, E.R. [44], and the following taxa-related references: Robinson and Redford [54], Begazo and Bodmer [8], Begazo [7], Peres and Nascimento [47], and Parry et al. [43]
*A: Junín Pablo, B: Caco Macaya, C: Puerto Belén, D: Naranjal, E: Cunchuri, F: Yerbas Buenas, G: Pueblo Libre, H: Monte de los Olivos, I: La Unión
^∞Bold letters identify indigenous communities, underlined letters identify riverine colonist communities, and the rest of the letters identify land-based colonist communities
⁺Estimate of animals hunted per month within or nearby the community’s territory (exact data for hunting area is not available)
^αThe total number of individuals for each species or taxa harvested was divided by the aggregated area of the community’s territories per year