| cranes and crops: investigating farmer tolerances toward crop damage by threatened blue cranes (anthropoides paradiseus) in the western cape, south africa. | the western cape population of blue cranes (anthropoides paradiseus) in south africa is of great importance as the largest population throughout its range. however, blue cranes are strongly associated with agricultural lands in the western cape, and therefore may come into conflict with farmers who perceive them as damaging to crops. we investigated the viability of this population by exploring farmer attitudes toward crane damage in two regions of the western cape, the swartland and overberg, u ... | 2016 | 27688257 |