Diferenciação da técnica internacional e brasileira de taxidermia em aves para aplicação didática

Abstract

Environmental Education is responsible for training people who understand and care about environmental problems and who seek to improve the quality of life on the planet. Taxidermy, as a practical tool in environmental education, enables greater contact between people and biological material, giving them a better understanding of the catastrophic consequences of lack of awareness. The present work had the objective to present two techniques of taxidermy, one used internationally and another one improved in Brazil by the Hungarian, Jose Hidasi. The following techniques were performed on Cuturnix cuturnix (quail) specimens by four undergraduates from the Faculdade União de Goyazes, in the municipality of Trindade, state of Goiás. The work demonstrated the importance of taxidermy as a tool in Environmental Education, aiming to increase the practical knowledge of Biologists on new ways to sensitize the community about conservation and preservation of the natural environment. By means of a pre-survey questionnaire, it was possible to determine the level of prior knowledge and interest in the subject, and at the end of the research, through a second questionnaire, this, post-survey, was made a comparative of the information collected. Through the comparison it was analyzed that undergraduates demonstrate little prior knowledge, but great interest in learning taxidermy and its importance as a tool in Environmental Education.