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 |
Only species that have a total harvest above 100 kg are listed;
Proportion of Total Biomass: Percentage of species contribution to total biomass harvested;
Within Species Trade: Percentage of species’ biomass harvested that is traded;
Proportion of Total Trade: Percentage of species contribution to total biomass traded.