Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, CEP 04263-000, Brazil.
Grupo de Morfología y Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Apartado, 7495, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2020 Apr 15;16(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s13002-020-00370-8.
The study of human-nature relationship has made possible to understand the life dynamics of the communities and the biodiversity with which they cohabit. Although there has been a rise of ethnobiological studies over the last decade, little is known about human interaction with herpetofauna in South America and Colombia. In this work, we analyzed the knowledge, perception, and interaction of a local community located in the forest reserve of Quininí (RFPCQ) in Cundinamarca (Colombia), concerning to the herpetofauna that inhabits the area.
We performed semi-structured surveys containing 30 questions categorized into three groups: academic knowledge (1), use and cultural beliefs (2), and interactions (3) related to the herpetofauna that occurs in the region. The obtained data in question groups 1 and 2 are presented as a qualitative summary. For the question group 3, we assigned the answers to a hostility value according to the possible reaction of each individual interviewed in a hypothetical encounter with the herpetofauna and built tendency charts in order to see the positive or negative reactions due to the birthplace (urban/rural) and gender (male/female).
The community recognized the presence of amphibians and reptiles that cohabit their space, as well as their potential habitats. Besides, the role of herpetofauna was recognized in the magical/religious traditions for some inhabitants of the region, mainly associated with the fate and cure of chronic diseases. In general, the perception of amphibians and reptiles varied according to the origin and gender of the people, which tend to have a more positive perception of reptiles than compared to amphibians in most cases.
Although there was a general lack of knowledge on the part of the inhabitants of the RFPCQ about the biological and ecological aspects of herpetofauna, the population recognized the basic information about the habitats of these animals within the reserve area. There is a wide variety of uses of amphibians and reptiles in traditional medicine. Greater efforts should be made in the transmission and dissemination of knowledge about the ecological functions of herpetofauna.
人类与自然关系的研究使得理解社区的生命动态以及与它们共同栖息的生物多样性成为可能。尽管在过去十年中，人们对民族生物学的研究有所增加，但对于南美洲和哥伦比亚的人类与爬行动物的相互作用却知之甚少。在这项工作中，我们分析了位于昆尼尼森林保护区（RFPCQ）的一个当地社区的知识、认知和与该地区栖息的爬行动物的相互作用。
我们进行了半结构化调查，其中包含 30 个问题，分为三组：学术知识（1）、使用和文化信仰（2）和与该地区发生的爬行动物有关的相互作用（3）。问题组 1 和 2 的获得的数据以定性摘要的形式呈现。对于问题组 3，我们根据每个受访者在与爬行动物假设相遇时可能的反应，将答案分配到敌对值，并绘制趋势图，以查看由于出生地（城市/农村）和性别（男性/女性）而产生的积极或消极反应。
该社区认识到共同栖息在其空间中的两栖动物和爬行动物的存在，以及它们潜在的栖息地。此外，该地区的一些居民承认爬行动物在魔法/宗教传统中的作用，主要与命运和慢性病的治疗有关。一般来说，两栖动物和爬行动物的认知因原籍和性别而异，在大多数情况下，人们对爬行动物的认知比对两栖动物的认知更为积极。
尽管 RFPCQ 的居民普遍缺乏对爬行动物生物和生态方面的知识，但该人群认识到保护区内这些动物栖息地的基本信息。在传统医学中，两栖动物和爬行动物有多种用途。应该更加努力地传播和传播有关爬行动物生态功能的知识。
