Chapter 2 Mammal Species Extinction and Decline: Some Current and Past Case Studies of the Detrimental Influence of Man

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1 ERRATUM TO Chapter 2 Mammal Species Extinction and Decline: Some Current and Past Case Studies of the Detrimental Influence of Man Katarzyna Daleszczyk, Amy E. Eycott, and Jörg E. Tillmann Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 F.M. Angelici (ed.), Problematic Wildlife, DOI / _2 DOI / _27 The following table was not included in Chapter 2 of this book. The updated online version of the original chapter can be found under Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 F.M. Angelici (ed.), Problematic Wildlife, DOI / _27 E1

2 Table 2.1 Some past and present examples of species suffering from various anthropogenic threats. If habitat loss/degradation/fragmentation was caused partially by agriculture or logging activities, it is indicated in appropriate column. Human population growth includes encroachment and demand for land, development of settlements and infrastructure as roads or dams, mining, etc. Domestic animals include competition, altering habitat, and diseases and parasites transmitted. Introduced species include competition, predation, and exotic diseases. Other include direct conflict with people, capture as pets/ for trade, war/ civil unrest, land-use preventing gene exchange, pollution, use of rodenticides, etc. Based on data from IUCN website Species Order DECLINING Giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca Southern river otter Lontra provocax Present (past) IUCN category General former range Habitat loss/ degradation/ fragmentation Agriculture Logging / illegal timber extraction Human population growth Domestic animals Hunting, poaching, human persecution Introduced species Carnivora EN China X Carnivora EN Argentina, Chile Population fragmentation Other X Tiger Panthera tigris Carnivora EN Flat-headed cat Prionailurus planiceps Indian water buffalo Bubalus arnee Przewalski's gazelle Procapra przewalskii Golden-capped fruit bat Acerodon jubatus Ecuadorian sac-winged bat Balantiopteryx infusca Northern bettong Bettongia tropica tic wild ass Equus hemonius Carnivora EN Sumatra, Borneo, Malayan peninsula Cetartiodactyla EN Southern and Cetartiodactyla EN Western China Chiroptera EN Philippines X Chiroptera EN Colombia, Ecuador Diprotodontia EN (Queensland) Perissodactyla EN Central and south-western

3 Yucatán black howler monkey Alouatta pigra Woolly spider monkey Brachyteles arachnoides Eastern gorilla Gorilla beringei n elephant Elephas maximus Utah prairie dog Cynomys parvidens AT RISK OF EXTINCTION Black-footed ferret Mustela nigripes European mink Mustela lutreola European bison Bison bonasus Scimitar-horned oryx Oryx dammah Primates EN Belize, Guatemala, Mexico Primates EN Brazil Primates EN Central Africa Proboscidea EN Western, southern and X X X Rodentia EN USA (Utah) X Carnivora EN(EW) Central North America Carnivora CR Europe Cetartiodactyla VU(EW) Western, central and Europe, Caucasus Cetartiodactyla EW Probably North Africa Saiga Saiga tatarica Cetartiodactyla CR South-East Europe, Central Philippine bare-backed fruit bat Dobsonia chapmani Chiroptera CR Philippines (continued)

4 Table 2.1 (continued) Species Order Talaud bear cuscus Ailurops melanotis Mountain pygmy-possum Burramys parvus Tenkile Dendrolagus scottae Riverine rabbit Bunolagus monticularis Pygmy three-toed sloth Bradypus pygmaeus Blond titi monkey Callicebus barbarabrownae Siau Island tarsier Tarsius tumpara Mexican agouti Dasyprocta mexicana Vancouver Island marmot Marmota vancouverensis EXTINCT Schomburgk sdeer Rucervus schomburgki Lesser mascarene flying-fox Pteropus subniger Present (past) IUCN category General former range Diprotodontia CR Indonesia Diprotodontia CR South-eastern Diprotodontia CR Papua New Guinea Lagomorhpha CR South Africa Pilosa CR Panama Primates CR Brazil X Primates CR Indonesia X X Rodentia CR Mexico X Rodentia CR Canada (British Columbia) X X Cetartiodactyla EX Thailand Chiroptera EX Mauritius, Réunion Habitat loss/ degradation/ fragmentation Agriculture Logging / illegal timber extraction Human population growth Domestic animals Hunting, poaching, human persecution Introduced species Population fragmentation Other

5 Tasmanian tiger Thylacinus cynocephalus Red-bellied gracile mouse opossum Cryptonanus ignitus Crescent nailtail wallaby Onychogalea lunata Atalaye nesophontes Nesophontes hypomicrus Dasyuromorphia EX Didelphimorphia EX Argentina X Diprotodontia EX Western and central Eulipotyphla EX Dominican Republic, Haiti Lesser bilby Macrotis leucura Peramelemorphia EX Central

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