91 



estimate for minimum catchment area would be the actual size of the ejido (552.95 km^; O. Guatemala 

 Biempica, in litt.) as 581 of the 584 kills were on the ejido. The problem with using this value is that 

 hunters from X-Hazil Sur generally hunted only in the western and southern two-thirds of the ejido 

 (ca. 370 km^), while hunters from the villages of Uh-May and Chancah Veracruz (not surveyed during 

 this study) usually hunted in the northeastern one-third of the ejido. 



The minimum harvest area over which game was taken differed among game species. The 

 two largest harvest areas were observed for the coati (251.8 km^) and the collared peccary (211.5 km^), 

 while the smallest harvest area observed was for the ocellated turkey (4.8 km^ Table 3-8). This 

 suggested that species such as the coati and the collared peccary were widely distributed and harvested 

 in the ejido, while others, such as the ocellated turkey, either had a limited distribution or were widely 

 distributed, but harvested only in a limited area. On a more general level, this suggested that game 

 was taken on only about 45-67% of the study area. 



There was a significant difference between the mean kill site distances by species (x^ 

 approximation = 58.924, d.f. = 11, P < 0.0001). The three species with the greatest mean distances 

 between the village and the kill sites were birds: ocellated turkey (7.6 km), great curassow (7.5 km), 

 and thicket tinamou (6.6 km), while the pocket gopher (3.4 km) had the smallest mean distance (Table 

 3-8). The ocellated turkey had the greatest minimum kill site distance (5.6 km), followed by the great 

 curassow (2.5 km). This suggested that, on average, game birds were taken at greater distances from 

 X-Hazil Sur than were game mammals. 



The greatest distance between a kill site and X-Hazil Sur was 17.5 km for a collared peccary, 

 while four species were taken within 1 km of the village (Table 3-8). Twenty-five percent of all kills 

 were within 2.5 km of X-Hazil Sur, 50% within 4.8 km, and 75% within 7.2 km. 



