bushmeat Wild mammals eaten by people, including not only cats, Chinese bamboo rats, squirrels, badgers and civets but also nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimps and gorillas.
Unsustainable hunting for consumption and trade of
wild meat (also known as
bushmeat) by humans represents a significant extinction threat to
wild terrestrial
mammal populations, perhaps most notably in parts of Asia, Africa and South America [4 — 6].