Table 11.

Familiarity of Chitwan National Park buffer zone people with names of native snakes (n = 28)

Demographics		a. Knowing snakes by their English name (KEN); null hypothesis (H0): population median scores (M) = hypothesized median scores (M0 = 1); alternative hypothesis (Ha): M > M0			b. Knowing snakes by their local name (KLN); null hypothesis (H0): population median scores (M) = hypothesized median scores (M0 = 5), alternative hypothesis (Ha): M > M0
		Median, range	W (KEN)	p-value	Median, range	W (KLN)	p-value
All respondents		0,0–12	2888	1	6,0–14	5625	0.004
Age (years)	15–24	0,0–2	82	1	5,1–11	414.5	0.171
	25–34	0,0–7	91.5	0.891	5,0–11	91.5	0.405
	35–44	0,0–8	236	0.990	6,2–11	508.5	0.009
	45–54	0,0–12	93	0.376	7,1–14	150	0.003
	55–64	0,0–4	42.5	0.965	5,1–7	39	0.892
	65+ above	0	0	0	5,3–7	16	0.641
Gender	Male	0,0–12	1780.5	0.985	7,5–11	2582	0.026
	Female	0,0–3	0	0	6,0–11	597.5	0.033
Occupation	Farmer	0,0–3	0	0	6,0–11	824	<0.001
	Teacher	0,0–6	558.5	0.142	4,1–9	253.5	0.974
	Student	0,0–2	66	1	5,1–11	239.5	0.319
	Othera	0,0–12	0	0	7,1–14	203	0.001
Educational status	Illiterate	0	0	0	6,0–11	257.5	0.005
	Literate	0,0–12	2243	0.999	5,1–14	3277.5	0.056
	Up to class 10	0,0–12	0	0	6,1–14	298.5	0.001
	Class 11 to 12	0,0–2	56	1	4,1–9	174	0.751
	Master’s degree	1,0–6	240.5	0.046	4,1–9	90.5	0.930
	Bachelor’s degree	0,0–3	83	0.939	5,1–11	116	0.203
	Literate informallyb	0,0–8	0	0	7.5,3–10	42	0.012

Symbols and abbreviation: ^ahotel owner, miller, fisherman, boat-man, mason labourer, housewife, nature guide; ^brespondents able to read and write by informal education but never attained school; n number of snake species displayed, W value of one-tailed one-sample Wilcoxon signed rank test. I zeroed W and p values for confidence interval (CI) below 95%