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- Title
Threatened Mammals Affected by Human Exploitation of the Female-Offspring Bond.
- Authors
Oldfield, Margery L.
- Abstract
Biologists have implicated human exploitation of the mammalian female-offspring bond as a causal factor in extinction or depletion This paper discusses pronounced maternal defense and attachment behavior as a biological attribute of extinction-prone mammals, and presents scientific and historical evidence of human exploitation or disturbance of the female-offspring bond of more than 30 threatened species and subspecies. Since premodem and traditional whaling practices commonly involved exploitation of the female-offspring bond, a detailed case study is provided for the great baleen whales. Finally, preferential predation of reproductive females with young is addressed in terms of its ecological and evolutionary implications for the long-term survival of wild mammal populations.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL extinction &; the environment; MAMMAL population estimates; WILDLIFE conservation; ANIMAL populations; SYMBIOSIS (Psychology); ATTACHMENT behavior; MAMMAL evolution; BALEEN whales
- Publication
Conservation Biology, 1988, Vol 2, Issue 3, p260
- ISSN
0888-8892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1523-1739.1988.tb00183.x