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Size, rarity and charisma: valuing African wildlife trophies
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We explore variation in the prices paid by recreational hunters of trophy animals in Africa and its possible causes, including perceived rarity. Previous work has raised the possibility that extinction can result if demand rises fast enough as a species becomes rarer. We attempt to disentangle this from other inter-correlated influences affecting price. Species with larger body sizes and larger trophies were more valuable. Value increased less steeply as a function of size for bovids than for...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Panthera Foundation
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 9
- Article number:
- e12866
- Publication date:
- 2010-09-01
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1932-6203
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- English
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- ora:4497
- Deposit date:
- 2010-11-24
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- Johnson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- Citation: Johnson, P. J. et al. (2010). 'Size, rarity and charisma: valuing African wildlife trophies', PLoS ONE 5(9), e12866. [Available at http://www.plosone.org]. Copyright 2010 Johnson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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