We have a project looking at the diet of people living traditional lifestyles that aims to determine the prey species they preferentially hunt and kill. We are looking for published studies and unpublished datasets that have information on the species killed by people and, ideally, the actual or relative abundance of the prey in the wildlife communities at the study site. Please contact us if you have information.
Birhor tribes are the hunter-gatherer indigenous people and endemic in Puruliya district, West Bengal, India. This particular tribe utilizes the fauna of the foothill of Ajodhya hill as food and mostly engaged to capture the small animals like porcupine, rabbit, peacock, pig and monkey generation after generation.
Taken from internet but also observed the same in Ajodhya hills.
Thanks Subir. Do you have any data on that as in the number of individuals killed of each species and their abundance within the prey community?
No but on a particular day of the year maximum hunting takes place. See
https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/tribal-men-dancing-during-a-hunting-festival-in-the-ayodhya-news-photo/170504120#/tribal-men-dancing-during-a-hunting-festival-in-the-ayodhya-hills-of-picture-id170504120
Also see
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Protected-animals-killed-in-tribal-fest/articleshow/20285015.cms
I would add that there is a differential between some rural Americans and their more-urban compatriots. Appalachians and Cajuns are two particular groups that still hunt smaller game: squirrels, wild rabbits, even opossum and raccoon; and small game birds: quail and even pigeon/dove. My own uncle hunted squirrel in the 1960's; and a family friend often recounted eating "bang-belly", a heavily-spiced opossum-based dish, as a child in northern Kentucky.
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