干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Beauty or beast? Farmers' dualistic views and the influence of aesthetic appreciation on tolerance towards black-backed jackal and caracal

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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0248977
	Beauty or beast? Farmers' dualistic views and the influence of aesthetic appreciation on tolerance towards black-backed jackal and caracal
	Drouilly, Marine; Nattrass, Nicoli; O'Riain, M. Justin
通讯作者	Drouilly, M (corresponding author), Univ Cape Town, Inst Communities & Wildlife Africa, Cape Town, South Africa. ; Drouilly, M (corresponding author), Panthera, New York, NY 10018 USA.
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2021
卷号	16 期号:3
英文摘要	Various species of wild, adaptable, medium-sized carnivores occur outside of protected areas, often coming into contact with people and their domestic animals. Negative human-carnivore interactions can lead to antagonistic attitudes and behavior directed at such species. In the South African Karoo, a semi-arid rangeland, the predation of small-livestock by mesopredators is common and farmers typically use a combination of non-lethal and lethal methods to try and prevent livestock losses. We used ethnographic field observations and semi-structured interviews as part of a mixed methods approach, including the quantitative and qualitative analysis of farmers' narratives to illustrate the nuanced ways in which sheep farmers relate to the two mesopredators that consume the most livestock on their farms; black-backed jackal and caracal. Overall, farmers attributed negative characteristics to jackal and caracal but farmers' narratives provided evidence of complex perceptions in that the animals were admired as well as disliked. Both species were seen as charismatic due to traits such as their physical appearance, their cunning nature and their remarkable adaptability to human activities, including lethal control. Aesthetic appreciation was an important predictor of tolerance towards both species whereas negative attitudes were associated with the perception that mesopredators should only occur within protected areas. Attitudes towards jackals also appeared to have been affected by cultural representations of them as thieves. We showed that perceiving mesopredators as beautiful increased the average marginal probability of a farmer tolerating them, and that this strong relationship held when controlling for other covariates such as livestock predation. We advocate the importance of understanding the cultural and aesthetic aspects of predators and considering existing positive dimensions of human-wildlife relationships that may encourage increased farmers' tolerance, which might promote coexistence.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000631030200037
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/368935
作者单位	[Drouilly, Marine; Nattrass, Nicoli; O'Riain, M. Justin] Univ Cape Town, Inst Communities & Wildlife Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; [Drouilly, Marine] Panthera, New York, NY 10018 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Drouilly, Marine,Nattrass, Nicoli,O'Riain, M. Justin. Beauty or beast? Farmers' dualistic views and the influence of aesthetic appreciation on tolerance towards black-backed jackal and caracal[J],2021,16(3).
APA	Drouilly, Marine,Nattrass, Nicoli,&O'Riain, M. Justin.(2021).Beauty or beast? Farmers' dualistic views and the influence of aesthetic appreciation on tolerance towards black-backed jackal and caracal.PLOS ONE,16(3).
MLA	Drouilly, Marine,et al."Beauty or beast? Farmers' dualistic views and the influence of aesthetic appreciation on tolerance towards black-backed jackal and caracal".PLOS ONE 16.3(2021).