Percepciones populares y culturales sobre los anfibios y reptiles en el Cantón Limón Indanz

Abstract

Abstract: Ethnozoology is the biological discipline that aims to understand how human beings idealize, formulate a concept, and how they relate to other animals. Over the years it has been identified that humanity has emphasized demeaning behavior, based on negative perspectives that are mostly influenced by the context in which they develop, social, cultural and ecological factors, which leads them to marginalize misconceptions regarding herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles). Thepresent research work intends, through a meta-analysis, to identify with surveys, the popular and cultural perceptions about amphibians and reptiles in the Limón Indanza canton in the southeast of Ecuador, with the objective of establishing an informativedocument that expands in depth the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of humanity towards herpetofauna. In conclusion, people show a lack of knowledge about amphibians and reptiles, because their conception of these is idealized under notions that theirenvironment marginalizes them.