Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on natural systems
- 2 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods
- 3 Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans
- 4 Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation
- 5 Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa
- 6 Evaluating lethal control in the management of human–wildlife conflict
- 7 Bearing the costs of human–wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes
- 8 Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use? Deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics
- 9 Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife?
- 10 Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality
- 11 From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland
- 12 Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict
- 13 Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge
- 14 People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya
- 15 Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa
- 16 Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa
- 17 Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat
- 18 People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya
- 19 Searching for the coexistence recipe: a case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East
- 20 A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway
- 21 Managing wolf–human conflict in the northwestern United States
- 22 Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study
- 23 An ecology-based policy framework for human–tiger coexistence in India
- 24 The future of coexistence: resolving human–wildlife conflicts in a changing world
- References
- Index
3 - Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on natural systems
- 2 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods
- 3 Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans
- 4 Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation
- 5 Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa
- 6 Evaluating lethal control in the management of human–wildlife conflict
- 7 Bearing the costs of human–wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes
- 8 Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use? Deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics
- 9 Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife?
- 10 Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality
- 11 From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland
- 12 Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict
- 13 Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge
- 14 People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya
- 15 Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa
- 16 Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa
- 17 Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat
- 18 People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya
- 19 Searching for the coexistence recipe: a case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East
- 20 A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway
- 21 Managing wolf–human conflict in the northwestern United States
- 22 Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study
- 23 An ecology-based policy framework for human–tiger coexistence in India
- 24 The future of coexistence: resolving human–wildlife conflicts in a changing world
- References
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Interactions between wildlife and humans come in many forms, from indirect observation, like the remote detection of smells or signs, or sightings (mutual and singular), to direct contact. In this chapter, we address the latter form, direct contact. Specifically, we deal with perhaps the most negative and dramatic of these interactions (from the human perspective), attacks on humans by wildlife. And, from such actions may follow perhaps the most unacceptable result, serious human injury or the loss of human life. Outside of rare or unwitting contact, most direct contacts between wildlife and humans can be viewed as negative for the individual wildlife involved.
Attacks on humans, with the animal intending to repel or even kill, fall in the extreme end of the direct contact category (Thirgood et al., Chapter 2). Attacks on humans by wildlife are not new. It is important to note that humans have been preyed upon from the earliest forms of our genus Homo and even earlier forms of hominids (Kruuk 2002). Although we have become increasingly accomplished in our ability to prey upon and defend ourselves against other animals, early hominids were highly vulnerable to a wide variety of predators and competitors (Kruuk 2002; Miller 2002). Even today, some of our primate relatives have some of the most intricate and developed forms of predator avoidance known (Miller 2002). However, the early and increasingly more elaborate development of tools separated us from other primates.
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- People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-existence? , pp. 27 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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