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Fruit Bats for Meat: are too many taken?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Oluwadare Funmilayo
Oluwadare Funmilayo
Affiliation:
Dept. of Agricultural Biology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Abstract

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Nigerian people eat meat mainly from wild animals, and the strawcoloured fruit bat is a popular meat in the south-west, where colonies may number a million animals. But the killing methods are inefficient and wasteful, and no management of the populations is attempted. The author suggests there is need to improve the former and embark on the latter if this valuable resource is to be conserved.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1978 , pp. 377 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1978

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