ABSTRACT

Social media platforms allow people to share experiences, thoughts, and actions through words and images, including human interactions with both domestic and wild animals. Human-wildlife interactions have been documented to have negative effects on wildlife. We use social media and a content analysis framework to identify general locations of a specific human-endangered wildlife interaction: human activity at painted dog den sites. Two hundred twenty images and captions relating to den visits were collected from four social media platforms, and then general locations mapped. Results indicate that den visits by humans occurred in seven of 14 countries where painted dogs are known to be present. This information provides a starting point for further investigation into the impacts of this activity on painted dogs, which is valuable to the effective management of human-caused disturbances (e.g., reducing potential anthropogenic Allee effects) for this species.

摘要

社交媒体平台允许人们通过文字和图像分享经验、思想和行动，包括人类与家养和野生动物的互动。人类与野生动物的相互作用已被证明会对野生动物产生负面影响。我们使用社交媒体和内容分析框架来确定特定的人类濒危野生动物互动的一般位置：人类在彩绘狗窝点的活动。从四个社交媒体平台收集了 220 幅与书房访问相关的图像和说明，然后绘制了大致位置。结果表明，在已知存在彩绘狗的 14 个国家中，有 7 个国家出现了人类探访巢穴的情况。此信息为进一步调查此活动对涂漆狗的影响提供了起点，