Subsistence hunting among the Waimiri Atroari Indians in central Amazonia, Brazil

By R. R. De Souza-Mazurek, Temehe Pedrinho, Xinymy Feliciano, Waraié Hilário, Sanapyty Gerôncio, Ewepe Marcelo. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2000

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Bringing home the biggest bacon: a cross-site analysis of the structure of hunter-kill profiles in Neotropical forests (2003, background): “For instance, many caboclo communities in increasingly overhunted areas of Brazilian Amazonia now consume several midsized to small-bodied game species previously thought to be unpalatable or undesirable; by the same token, hunters who are heavily subsidised by a super-abundance of aquatic sources o”
Predicting local extinctions of Amazonian vertebrates in forest islands created by a mega dam (2015, background): “Tortoises, which are frequently consumed by local communities (Souza-Mazureck et al., 2000), were detected in 13 of 37 islands.”
Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. (2015, background): “…elevated through continued offtake by human hunter-gatherers, as evidenced by the failure of Amazonian tortoises (Chelonoidis denticulata and C. carbonaria) to persist within the daily hunting perimeter (8–10 km) around Amerindian villages (Souza-Mazurek et al. 2000; Peres and Nascimento 2006).”