Bibliography Record

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 Timm, Robert M.; Albuja V., Luis; Clauson, Barbara L. (detail)
   
1989
Siona hunting techniques for the larger aquatic vertebrates in Amazonian Ecuador.
Studs. Neotropical Fauna & Envir. 24(1): 1-7. 2 figs.
–Describes in detail the manatee harpoons and hunting method used by the Siona Indians, notes that they are now voluntarily refraining from killing manatees in order to conserve the reduced numbers of the latter, and suggests that manatees may help maintain the Sionas' canoe routes by controlling water hyacinths.

Related Index Records (6)

Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1989 Timm et al. (TI; Ecuador; conservation practices of Siona Indians; 5-6.)
Ecuador
  x 1989 Timm et al. (TI; Siona Indian hunting techniques; 1-7.)
Food Plants: Eichhornia
(water hyacinth; Pontederiaceae)
  x 1989 Timm et al. (Ecuador; naturally ?controlled by TI; 6.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1989 Timm et al. (TI; Ecuador; by Siona Indians; harpooning techniques; 1-4.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x 1989 Timm et al. (Ecuador; hunting techniques of Siona Indians; 1-7.)
Weed Control
  x 1989 Timm et al. (TI; Ecuador; possible importance to Siona Indians of natural weed control; 6.)

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