Wild Meat and Biodiversity
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African bushmeat includes ungulates such as forest antelope, known as duiker (Robinson and Bennett 2000), reptiles and large-bodied birds (Bennett-Hennessey 1995), smaller-bodied mammals such as porcupines and cane rat (Fa et al. 1995), and primates. In west and central Africa, bushmeat primates include monkey and chimpanzee (Willcox and Nambu 2007), baboon and colobus (Chapman et al. 2006), even the majestic and endangered mountain gorilla (Grevengoed 2001). Taken together, primates account for between one-tenth and one-quarter of all bushmeat harvested in the region (Bowen-Jones and Pendry 1999).
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