Table 2.
Attitudes of respondents toward damage-causing mammalian wildlife by stakeholder and species group
| Positive | Nonpositive | |
|---|---|---|
| Group | attitude (%) | attitudes (%) |
| Stakeholder typea | ||
| all stakeholders | 46 | 54 |
| urban residents | 80 | 20 |
| commercial farmers | 51 | 49 |
| communal farmers | 26 | 74 |
| other | 43 | 57 |
| no damage | 61 | 39 |
| Species | ||
| elephants | 65 | 35 |
| primates | 55 | 45 |
| ungulates | 53 | 47 |
| carnivores | 44 | 56 |
The stakeholder categories are defined in Table1.