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    This document provides an overview of the economic importance of mammals. It discusses how mammals are important as sources of food, in diplomacy, for research, as working animals in various industries like entertainment and sports, and as companions. Some examples mentioned include musk deer, elephants gifted between countries, horses gifted, and research using over 7 million animals in the EU in 2011. Mammals also have ecological importance as pollinators, seed dispersers, and for controlling insect pests. However, they can also be a disadvantage by preying on livestock, transmitting diseases, and being agricultural pests. The main threats mammals face are habitat degradation, deforestation, coastal development, urbanization, hunting, and conflicts with

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    This document provides an overview of the economic importance of mammals. It discusses how mammals are important as sources of food, in diplomacy, for research, as working animals in various industries like entertainment and sports, and as companions. Some examples mentioned include musk deer, elephants gifted between countries, horses gifted, and research using over 7 million animals in the EU in 2011. Mammals also have ecological importance as pollinators, seed dispersers, and for controlling insect pests. However, they can also be a disadvantage by preying on livestock, transmitting diseases, and being agricultural pests. The main threats mammals face are habitat degradation, deforestation, coastal development, urbanization, hunting, and conflicts with

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    24/6/2021

    Economic Importance of
    Mammals

    STH 2083 Vertebrate Biology


    Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, PhD
    Department of Zoology
    Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
    Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

    This OpenCourseWare@UNIMAS and its related course materials are licensed


    under
    a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    License.

    1 2

    Food
    Food
    Diplomacy Product

    Mammals
    Research Friend
    Importance

    Entertainment Working
    Animals
    Sport

    3 4

    Product Friend

    ?
    Musk Deer

    5 6

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    Working Animal Sports

    7 8

    Entertainment Research

    The EU has released the Seventh Report in which it


    HAM – Jan 1961 provides the number of animals used by member
    states in 2011

    9 10

    Diplomacy

    An Asian elephant was presented as


    a national gift to China by Mahinda Turkmen President Gurbanguly
    Rajapaksa, the incumbent president Berdymukhamedov presented an
    of Sri Lanka, during his first term in Akhal-Teke horse to President Xi
    Ailuropoda melanoleuca office, at the Beijing Zoo on Feb 26, Jinping on May 12, 2014
    Xing Xing and Liang Liang 2007

    11 12

    2
    24/6/2021

    New Economy Product Ecological Importance


    Pollination (Durian/Banana/Petai)
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69IGcIp-Azg
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUloK7Zesx4

    Seed disperser/Forest regeneration


    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBkhPJ9S
    VQ

    Insect control (Agricultural)

    13 14

    Mammals Disadvantage Threats


    • Man – tiger, lion, • Microorganism – • Monkeys –
    leopard, wolves pigs, dogs, rats; nuisance, damage
    • Livestock - tiger, Nipah virus in dog, food and crops
    lion, leopard, cat, man & bats • Urban rodents –
    wolves, foxes • Tapeworms damage to food
    (Castoda) – dogs • Goat –
    • Roundworms domesticated
    (Nematoda) Pigs, (agroforestry)
    dogs • Elephants – oil
    • Fleas, ticks and palm, banana, Habitat
    mites – dogs and rubber Hunting & Trade
    Degradation Conflicts
    cats, deer • Wild pig – rooting Food source
    • SARS-CoV Deforestation Farmers & animals
    Medicinal remedy
    Coastal
    Predator Disease Pest development Hunting During
    Reproductive Sea
    Urbanization
    Poachers

    15 16

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