tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Use and knowledge of the razor-billed curassow Pauxi tuberosa (spix, 1825) (galliformes, cracidae) by a riverine community of the Oriental Amazonia, Brazil."

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Use and knowledge of the razor-billed curassow Pauxi tuberosa (spix, 1825) (galliformes, cracidae) by a riverine community of the Oriental Amazonia, Brazil. | Barros et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2011 7 1 http content 7 1 1 Tg- JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY 5R And ethnomedicine RESEARCH Open Access Use and knowledge of the razor-billed curassow Pauxi tuberosa spix 1825 galliformes cracidae by a riverine community of the Oriental Amazonia Brazil Flavio B Barros1 2 Henrique M Pereira2 Luis Vicente2 Abstract In the Amazonian basin the human populations that traditionally inhabit the forest use its natural resources in various ways. One example is the local fauna which among several other uses is an important source of protein. The general aim of our study was to investigate the importance of hunting to the lives of the Amazonian riverine communities and to identify the multiple uses and knowledge about the hunted animals. In this article we focused the study on the razor-billed curassow Pauxi tuberosa a Cracidae of significant value to the studied community. The investigation was conducted in the Riozinho do Anfrisio Extractive Reserve a Brazilian Conservation Unit located at the Altamira municipality in the state of Pará. We used an ethnoecological approach which included participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Our results show that the razor-billed curassow is used by the Riozinho do Anfrisio local population mainly as food but it also fulfils secondary functions with the feathers being used as a domestic tool and as magic-religious symbol some organs as traditional medicine and some chicks even being raised as pets. Our study also revealed that the traditional ecological knowledge of the riverines about their environment is considerably large and that the local biodiversity provides various ecosystem services. Introduction Animals have long been used by humans for the most diverse purposes. In the last decade however the different ways in which the faunistic resources are used by traditional human cultures have become a significant subject of investigation in Brazil 1-10 .