Conhecimentos e emoções em relação às abelhas e outros animais por estudantes de escolas públicas da Zona da Mata Norte, Pernambuco, Brasil

Abstract

Human beings have "an Sate emotional tendency to affiliate with other living beings". This affiliation would have evolved Sing biocultural evolution, which allowed human beings to evolve successfully. "Love" for nature is an important factor that drives lmmans to conserve nature. However, in contrast to positive effects (biophilia), there is biophobia, which consists of the predisposition of human beings to express negative effects, such as fear, aversion, ad other feelings.' These negative feelings are often intended for insects. The activity of stingless bee raising promotes the conservation of these insects, stimulating biophilic attitudes towards these animals. The school provides a broad place for discussions and approaches to topics related to nature conservation. Thus, it is believed that students who are related with meliponicultors present, in their speeches and in their school activities, knowledge about stingless bees and other biodiversity components. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge and attitudes related to animal diversity with students in a public school, in a rural location, where several farmers who raise native bees live. The research was carried out in the municipalities of Timbaiba and Macaparana with students who lived in the locality of Sitio rmai, where several meliponicultors live. A free list with Ewe questions ("Which animals the Xixi forest has?'; "Which animals does your family raise?"; "Which animals do you like most?"; "Which animals do you like least?" and "Write about the Uruott bee') was applied. The first four questions were analyzed using Anthropac that generated salience indices, while the last one was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Through the results, it was possible to identify the animal category "snake" as the most prominent for the first question, while for the second one the category "dog" was the most relevant For the third question, which talk about positive feelings, the categories "cat" and "dog" were the most evident, showing how domestic animals are more easily perceived in a positive way. In contrast, the fourth question, which is about negative feelings, had the category "snake" highlighted again. For the fifth question, the students demonstrated different knowledge about the Unica bee, emphasizing the categories ecological-scientific, utility and management and behavior. Thus, it is possible to in that students present different knowledge about unicu bees and the local Lima, presenting more biophobic than biophilic relationships with the bees.