Percepção Etnozoológica de estudantes do ensino médio sobre mamíferos voadores (Chiroptera) em Goiânia, Goiás

Abstract

The bats are the only flying mammals belonging to the Order Chiroptera, with nocturnal habits and sleeping upside down. For these features are considered weird, feeding the popular imagination of beliefs and fantasies. This happens because people don’t know the biological complexity of these animals, these animals are knowing as seed dispersers, controllers of insect populations and some vertebrates, and they’re pollinators and help in the production of drugs also. So each person has a perception of being for the environment, and this human animal relationship is studied by ethnozoology. The objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge of students on 2nd year high school students in four public schools in Goiânia, Goiás, about bats, and profile the target audience statement regarding the study group. A questionnaire was given to 187 students with the aim of creating a data source to check how much students know about the group in study. There were differences between schools in the study, except on questions about the classification of bats, which southern region schools had a higher performance. It will be necessary that schools teach and refine methodologies for the study of this group, because only with environmental awareness education is that students can be achieved to demystify and preserve these animals.