Wild Meat Diversity and Human Nutrition in a Nigerian Rainforest

Emma Petrick

Wild meat is not homogeneous, as different groups of animals vary in their economic and cultural role and in environmental and disease significance. Focusing on three wild meat clades and two areas of a rainforest, I investigate whether animal clades also differ in their quantitative nutritional role. I compare clades' proximate nutritional composition, the relative frequencies of their use in recipes, and their relative significance to human diets, testing for differences between areas as well.

Major: 
Anthropology & Political Science
Exhibition Category: 
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Exhibition Format: 
Poster Presentation
Campus: 
University Park
Faculty Sponsor: 
Sagan Friant
Poster Number: 
51822