Education of Zoo Visitors and Advocacy of Kea - Kea Conservation ...
Education of Zoo Visitors and Advocacy of Kea - Kea Conservation ...
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Groups 2 <strong>and</strong> 3 were asked two questions regarding <strong>Kea</strong> in the wild.<br />
1) If they considered <strong>Kea</strong> to be important to conserve in the wild, 85.2%<br />
(196/230) thought <strong>Kea</strong> are important to conserve, 14.3% (33/230) were not<br />
sure <strong>and</strong> 0.4% (1/230) thought <strong>Kea</strong> were not important to conserve.<br />
2) How would they consider an encounter with wild <strong>Kea</strong>, 67% (154/230) thought<br />
it would be a privilege, 18.7% (43/230) thought it would be a novelty, 12.6%<br />
(29/230) were not sure, 1.7% (4/230) thought <strong>Kea</strong> would be a nuisance to<br />
encounter in the wild.<br />
<strong>Kea</strong> enclosure<br />
Group 3 was asked if they liked the kea enclosure (Figure 9), the highest value for<br />
disliking the enclosure was 26.9% (14/52) who stated the enclosure was too small.<br />
The highest value for liking the enclosure was 15.4% (8/52) who stated the enclosure<br />
was naturalistic.<br />
There was no significant difference between males <strong>and</strong> females (G = .127, d. f =2, p =<br />
.939) when asked if they liked the kea enclosure.<br />
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