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DOI	10.2993/0278-0771-41.1.70
	Listening to Bats: Namibian Pastoralists' Perspectives, Stories, and Experiences
	Laverty, Theresa M.; Teel, Tara L.; Gawusab, A. Archie; Berger, Joel
通讯作者	Laverty, TM (corresponding author), Colorado State Univ, Dept Fish Wildlife & Conservat Biol, 1474 Campus Delivery, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
ISSN	0278-0771
EISSN	2162-4496
出版年	2021
卷号	41 期号:1 页码:70-86
英文摘要	While relatively little is known about bats across much of Africa, globally, many bat populations are in decline due to human activities. Successful bat conservation efforts, therefore, depend on both ecological studies and research on human-bat relationships. To address these knowledge gaps about African bats and their interactions with humans, we used semi-structured interviews of pastoralists in northwestern Namibia to assess local experiences with, attitudes toward, and cultural stories about bats. Our research was conducted in conjunction with an ecological study on Namib Desert bat distributions, thus allowing for a broader understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of human-bat interactions in this region. Though only 65% of interviews were able to correctly identify bats from photographs, 100% classified these species as bats when provided with an additional description of animals that fly at night. A majority (77%) of interviews expressed positive attitudes toward bats and over a third (38%) provided cultural stories, offering detailed reports of myths and common meanings assigned to bats. Of those stories, 12% indicated that bats brought good luck or good rains, and 84% specified that bats represented bad luck or omens of injuries, death, disease, or lack of rains. While the primary threats of habitat loss and bushmeat hunting were never mentioned in our interviews, the influence of negative cultural stories on individual behavior could pose challenges for future bat conservation initiatives. This qualitative approach combined with ecological research may be valuable for assessing cross-cultural relationships between humans and understudied wildlife in other remote areas.
英文关键词	attitudes Chiroptera cultural stories Namib Desert pastoralist
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000632217800005
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Biology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
来源机构	Colorado State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350808
作者单位	[Laverty, Theresa M.; Berger, Joel] Colorado State Univ, Dept Fish Wildlife & Conservat Biol, 1474 Campus Delivery, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA; [Teel, Tara L.] Colorado State Univ, Dept Human Dimens Nat Resources, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA; [Gawusab, A. Archie] POB 5, Sesfontein, Kunene Region, Namibia; [Berger, Joel] Wildlife Conservat Soc, Bronx, NY USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Laverty, Theresa M.,Teel, Tara L.,Gawusab, A. Archie,et al. Listening to Bats: Namibian Pastoralists' Perspectives, Stories, and Experiences[J]. Colorado State University,2021,41(1):70-86.
APA	Laverty, Theresa M.,Teel, Tara L.,Gawusab, A. Archie,&Berger, Joel.(2021).Listening to Bats: Namibian Pastoralists' Perspectives, Stories, and Experiences.JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY,41(1),70-86.
MLA	Laverty, Theresa M.,et al."Listening to Bats: Namibian Pastoralists' Perspectives, Stories, and Experiences".JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY 41.1(2021):70-86.