Can Australians identify snakes?
| Autor: | Judy Nixon, Jeanette Covacevich, John Pearn, John Morrison |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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Male Rural Population Veterinary medicine Students Medical Adolescent Urban Population Poison control complex mixtures Suicide prevention Indigenous Sex Factors Physicians Injury prevention Medicine Animals Humans Child Students integumentary system biology business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Australia Snakes General Medicine biology.organism_classification Taipan Brown snake Python (genus) Educational Status Female Rural area business Demography |
| Zdroj: | The Medical journal of Australia. 2(2) |
| ISSN: | 0025-729X |
| Popis: | A study of the ability of Australians to identify snakes was undertaken, in which 558 volunteers (primary and secondary schoolchildren, doctors and university science and medical students) took part. Over all, subjects correctly identified an average of 19% of snakes; 28% of subjects could identify a taipan, 59% could identify a death adder, 18% a tiger snake, 23% an eastern (or common) brown snake, and 0.5% a rough-scaled snake. Eighty-six per cent of subjects who grew up in rural areas could identify a death adder; only 4% of those who grew up in an Australian capital city could identify a nonvenomous python. Male subjects identified snakes more accurately than did female subjects. Doctors and medical students correctly identified an average of 25% of snakes. The ability to identify medically significant Australian snakes was classified according to the observer's background, education, sex, and according to the individual snake species. Australians need to be better educated about snakes indigenous to this country. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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