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. 2014 Dec 9;9(12):e114916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114916

Table 1. Most important species harvested and traded as bushmeat by Waorani along Maxus Road in Yasuní.

Harvest Trade
Speciesa n kg PTBb kg WSTc PTTd
White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) 975 26,493 49.3 10,510 39.7 56.7
Collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) 448 8,498 15.8 3,316 39.0 17.9
South American Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) 58 8,200 15.3 2,166 26.4 11.7
Red brocket (Mazama americana) 155 4,517 8.4 1,524 33.7 8.2
Amazonian brown brocket (Mazama nemorivaga) 11 162 0.3 18 11.4 0.1
Woolly monkey (Lagothrix poeppigii) 280 1,838 3.4 249 13.6 1.3
Spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) 73 556 1.0 61 10.9 0.3
Howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) 51 340 0.6 33 9.8 0.2
Lowland paca (Cuniculus paca) 117 1,032 1.9 335 32.4 1.8
Black agouti (Dasyprocta fuliginosa) 49 238 0.4 54 22.6 0.3
Salvin’s curassow (Mitu salvini) 173 693 1.3 60 8.6 0.3
Spix’s guan (Penelope jacquacu) 155 165 0.3 3 1.6 0.0
Blue-throated piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis) 102 104 0.2 2 2.0 0.0
Yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulata) 31 169 0.3 110 65.4 0.6
Other species (37) 423 688 1.3 91 13.2 0.5
Total 3,101 53,693 100.0 18,532 100.0
a

Only species that have a total harvest above 100 kg are listed;

b

Proportion of Total Biomass: Percentage of species contribution to total biomass harvested;

c

Within Species Trade: Percentage of species’ biomass harvested that is traded;

d

Proportion of Total Trade: Percentage of species contribution to total biomass traded.