Fig 1.
Top left: Maps of South Africa and the Central Karoo District within South Africa, where the study took place. Top right: Pictures of black-backed jackal and caracal in the Karoo. Background picture: Typical landscape of an extensive small-livestock farm in the Central Karoo District, South Africa. Photography © Houdin & Palanque.
Table 1.
Description of the variables hypothesized to influence farmers’ tolerance towards jackal/caracal presence resulting in 5% of livestock losses on their farms in the Central Karoo.
Fig 2.
Histogram showing the percentage of farmers who ranked eight species and categories of predators from the first (Rank 1) to the last (Rank 6) cause of livestock losses on their small-livestock farms in the Central Karoo District, South Africa. The number of farmers identifying a predator species for each rank (n) is given under the rank number. “A. wildcat” represents “African wildcat”.
Fig 3.
Attitude salience towards jackal and caracal.
Word clouds (A, C) and corresponding histograms of the ten most frequently used words (B, D) by farmers (n = 77) when asked the question “What is the first thing you think about when I say the word jackal/caracal?”. The size of the words in the word clouds is proportional to the number of times farmers used the words in their answers. Figures (A) and (B) are for jackal, whereas figures (C) and (D) are for caracal. In Figure (A), the term “nohate” is used to represent the sentence “I have no hate for the jackal”.
Table 2.
Results from the binary logistic regression explaining small-livestock farmers’ tolerance towards jackals assuming that they cause 5% of livestock losses on their farms in the Central Karoo, South Africa.
Table 3.
Results from the binary logistic regression explaining small-livestock farmers’ tolerance towards caracals assuming that they cause 5% of livestock losses on their farms in the Karoo, South Africa.