Jean-Marie Ballouard

TL;DR: The authors' results show that, of 17 snake populations from the UK, France, Italy, Nigeria and Australia, 11 have declined sharply over the same relatively short period of time with five remaining stable and one showing signs of a marginal increase.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the knowledge of children and their consideration to protect animal are mainly limited to internet contents, represented by a few exotic and charismatic species.

TL;DR: Physical contact with animals appears to be a crucial element to improve schoolchildren's attitude for an unpopular organism, and the results support the promotion of field trips that include physical contact with wildlife over the current trend in the educational systems that promote virtual approaches.

TL;DR: It is suggested that it is not compulsory to focus on charismatic animals to convince children to protect wildlife, suggesting that many children liked snakes and that most of the students wanted to see snakes protected.

TL;DR: This study reports the first natural example of a "prison effect," whereby a high population density combined with female deprivation triggered SSB as a mere outlet of sexual stimulation, and supports the hypothesis that SSB can be a nonadaptive consequence of unusual proximate factors rather than reflecting physiological disorders.