The Kani Tribe Case Study

Introduction As part of the All India Coordinated Research Project on Ethnobiology, a team of scientists conducted an ethnobotanical knowledge survey of the Kani people in the Thiruvananthapuram forest in the southern section of the Western Ghat region in the state of Kerala in 1987. (AICRPE). The Kani guides Mallan Kani and Kuttimathan Kani did not experience exhaustion throughout the lengthy walks, but the scientists did. The scientists were given fruits that the Kani guides regularly...