Conhecimento local sobre o boto vermelho, Inia geoffrensis (de Blainville, 1817), no baixo rio Negro e um estudo de caso de suas interações com humanos.
The boto, Inia geoffrensis, is the biggest river dolphin and endemic of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, where it is widely distributed. Because of its broad distribution, the boto is known by the Amazonian people and is part of their folklore and culture. Despite its distribution and abundan...
| Autor principal: | Barezani, Carla Patrícia |
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| Grau: | Dissertação |
| Idioma: | por |
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA
2020
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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/11976 http://lattes.cnpq.br/0695382384036724 |
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The boto, Inia geoffrensis, is the biggest river dolphin and endemic of the Amazon and
Orinoco river basins, where it is widely distributed. Because of its broad distribution, the boto
is known by the Amazonian people and is part of their folklore and culture. Despite its
distribution and abundance, there are few studies about the ecology, biology and popular
knowledge of these animals. Two differents kinds interviews were undertaken to study the
local knowledge of the boto in the low Negro river AM.
The first type of interview provided
general information relating to the biology and ecology of these animals compared to the
scientific knowledge, and revealing that, although expressed in different ways, the people
interviewed have a good perception of the environment where they live. This allows an
interchange between popular and scientific knowledge. The aim of the second type of
interview was to study cultural knowledge as consensus. There are “Intra” cultural variations
between localities and gender. A consensus among students and among a specific group of
people, over 35 years old, was also verified showing a featureless local knowledge and the
demystification of myths and legends about the Amazon river dolphin. This study on local
knowledge showed an humanboto
interaction, that makes possible for man to acquire
biological and ecological knowledge of the boto. At Novo Airão, a city located on the margin
of the Negro River, there is a group of botos that interact every day with humans. These
dolphins swim close to people and seem to be very curious and calm during these
interactions, allowing to be touched and fed directly from human hands. The lack of boto
behavior studies can be due to its habitat characteristics that make sighting and identification
of the animals difficult. This human with boto interaction offered a unique opportunity to study
the behavior of these animals in natural environment. The approximation of these animals to
humans facilitated visualization and identification as important tools for intra and
interespecific behavior studies. It was demonstrated a low variation in the interaction patterns
with humans and that these dolphins do not show patterns of association. The traditional
knowledge about river dolphins and their interaction, inter and intra specific, in the wild are
important tools for the knowledge about the species, and an important factor for the
conservation of this river dolphin, helping the implementation of conservation strategies. |