Português

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira de Lima, Francisco Gutemberg
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Cassiano-Lima, Daniel, Oliveira de Almeida, Norma, Praciano de Castro, Deborah
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Conexão Comciência
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/conexaocomciencia/article/view/8357
• topic: Ofídios; Etnobiologia; Educação Ambiental

Snakes are animals of ecological, economic, and medical importance. Despite this, there is a lack of knowledge about these animals, even in educational environments such as school. Therefore, this work aims to register the conceptions of students from the State School of Professional Education in the municipality of Itapipoca, Ceará on the ethnoherpetological domain “serpents”. For this, a semi-structured investigative questionnaire with objective and subjective questions was asked to 75 students from the 2nd year of high school. Students are unaware of the biological aspects of snakes, as well as confusion between the term’s “poison” and “venom”. They also cited the obsolete concepts for the identification of venomous snakes, and it was notorious that their framework of knowledge is supported by the media and folklore (regional and international). It is believed that environmental education is the best way to solve the problems that were highlighted by the research.