Fauna silvestre usada como animais de estimação no semiárido brasileiro

Abstract

This study aimed to inventory and quantify the wealth of species of wildlife that are being kept as pets and pinpoints ways of acquiring the animal, the main reasons for creating and analyzing the socioeconomic profile of the available population. The fieldwork was carried out between July 2013 and January 2015, with residents of the municipality of Santa Luzia located in the semiarid Northeast. They interviewed 1,195 locals who created or not wild species as a pet. Data were collected through semistructured

questionnaires individually. 271 specimens belonging to 35 species belonging to 11 families were recorded. The avifauna was the most significant group in which the Thraupidae Family was the most representative in number of species (n = 12) and specimens (n = 122). The animals are mostly (38.5%) captured from nature and its main form of use is as a pet (76%). Find wild animals being kept as pets in possession of creators of both genders (male and female), divided into different age categories predominantly in the category 20-40 years and different levels of education. The results also showed that the maintenance of domestic species in selected households exceeded considerably the creation of wild species. Thus, we understand that positively choosing a cat, dog, rabbit or any other animal domestic fauna, as estimates of animal in this region, is mitigating the exploitation and removal of many wild species of nature, assisting in the conservation process thereof. Given the above, we hope that our findings are important to support the development of management plans for conservation of the species of wildlife that are being used as pets in northeastern Brazil.