Increase in the Tamaraw
Increase in the Tamaraw
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塔玛拉的增加
DOI：
10.1017/s0030605300014472
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发表时间：
1977
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
D. W. Kuehn
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作者：
D. W. Kuehn
虽然塔玛拉在更新世出现在吕宋岛，但在历史上，这种布法罗仅限于菲律宾的民都洛岛。在那里，它建立了一个侵略性的声誉，使它在菲律宾广为人知，但直到1888年才被描述为科学。据估计，1900年有10，000头tamaraw Bubalus mindorensis占领了民都洛岛，但到1949年，数量下降到1000头，1953年只剩下不到250头。1969年，哈里森估计，大约有100人在四个已知地区中的三个幸存下来。偷猎是导致数量下降的主要原因。由于哈里森和林德伯格将军的努力，1969年也标志着菲律宾政府开始保护塔玛拉，并在西方民都洛的伊格利特山野生动物保护区和鸟类保护区派驻了管理员和警卫。在1972年5月至1974年3月期间，我对2000公顷的保护区进行了一次塔玛拉研究，那里是塔玛拉的主要种群。
Although the tamaraw occurred on Luzon during the Pleistocene, in historic times this buffalo has been restricted to the Philippine island of Mindoro. There it established a reputation for aggressiveness that made it widely known in the Philippines, but it was not described for science until 1888. It has been estimated that 10,000 tamaraw Bubalus mindorensis occupied Mindoro island in 1900 but by 1949 numbers had declined to 1000 animals, and in 1953 fewer than 250 remained. In 1969 Harrisson estimated that about 100 survived in three of their four known areas. Poaching was the main cause of the decline. Thanks to Harrisson's and General Lindbergh's efforts, 1969 also marked the start of the Philippine Government's tamaraw conservation effort, and wardens and guards were posted at the Mt Iglit Game Refuge and Bird Sanctuary in Occidental Mindoro. Between May 1972 and March 1974 I conducted a tamaraw study on 2000 hectares of the refuge where the major tamaraw population was to be found.