Cultural refugees

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In zoology , cultural refugees or hemerophobes are animal species that avoid human proximity. With increasing settlement and anthropogenic changes in the landscape, they give up these habitats and disappear.

In the bird world, for example, the capercaillie , the hazel grouse and the black stork are pronounced cultural refugees.

The opposite are cultural followers or hemerophiles .

literature

  • E. Bezzel / R. Prinzinger: Ornithology. 2nd Edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8001-2597-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturflüchter. Compact lexicon of biology on Spektrum.de .
  2. ↑ Kulturflüchter. Lexicon of technical terms, Association of Zoological Gardens .
  3. ↑ Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus). Animal profile at the German Hunting Association .
  4. ↑ Secret forest dweller. Rosenheim24.de, March 22, 2010.