Jieun Oh, Jieun Min, Cinoo Kang, Ejin Kim, Jung Pyo Lee, Ho Kim, Whanhee Lee
Excess mortality and the COVID-19 pandemic: causes of death and social inequalities
BMC public health
reptiles form paraphyletic group significant roles human society including species considered important food medicinal mystical use pets species considered aversive whereas others captivating among people aversion important factor considered conservation policies animals investigate demographic educational perceptives behavioural factors students related aversion nonconservationist attitudes directed towards different reptile species evaluated effect educational exhibition animals strategy mitigating attitudes data obtained forms aversion conservation reptiles represented three species chelonian snake lizard form given two instances visit private zoo museu vivo rpteis da caatinga students contact aforementioned species total 133 students participated study among 43 elementary school 21 females 22 males 29 high school 16 females 13 males 37 university biology students 22 females 15 males 24 university mathematics students 6 females 18 males among evaluated species snakes considered aversive species aversion attitudes differed three evaluated species correlated age type university courses however pattern differ student sexes older students lower aversion chelonian compared younger ones snakes lizards aversion high among students ages university biology students lower aversion compared university mathematics students three species recognition handle tested species previous visits educational exhibitions animals negatively related aversion comparative analysis forms applied visit museu vivo rpteis da caatinga showed visit influenced decrease aversion nonconservationist attitudes attitude scores always low conclude reptile aversion varies accordance taxon snakes disliked students visit educational exhibition animals contributed reduction observed aversion especially true acquisition educational information species associated practical activities includes contact animals finally fact nonconservationist attitudes low towards species perhaps demonstrates conservationist tendency even aversive species