Sentence examples for crop raiders from inspiring English sources
In South Africa they are said to kill lambs, and everywhere they are known as crop raiders.
The perception of crop raiders – primarily baboons and small monkeys, but also elephants and other animals – may have largely shaped human-environment interactions, and were associated with fragmentation.
We found that when a tiger was present in forests surrounding villages, leopards and dholes occupied areas closer to village croplands and preyed on a higher relative abundance of wild herbivore crop raiders, thereby significantly reducing crop (β = −2.25, p < .0001) and livestock losses (β = −2.39, p ≤.0001).
When desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) become too great in number, they transform from solitary insects into swarming crop raiders.
The study "is pioneering in delving into the behavior of crop raiders," adds Lisa Naughton, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who focuses on interactions between human societies and animals.
Those that have reported shifts in home range sizes amongst primate crop raiders include food waste feeding baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in Kenya that had greatly reduced home ranges in comparison to those of strictly wild foraging baboons from a neighbouring location [38].
Unfortunately he is also, on occasion, a crop raider.
The importance of this species as a crop raider is evident from the fact that persons in our study area engage in a variety of culturally unique practices specifically designed to deter crop raiding, especially of maize, by red-tailed guenons (38 ).
Active and fallow fields sourced a limited number of species known to be resilient to hunting, but hunting had additional benefits through crop-raider control.
Non-human primates, such as Macaca sp. in Asia, and Papio sp. and Cercopithecus sp. in Africa, are considered particularly problematic as crop-raiders [14], [17].
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