Table 1 Species projected to students in the study, with the respective conservation status and reference on what the selection was based on

Mammals

 Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

Great fruit-eating bat

LC

[38, 39]

 Callithrix jacchus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common mamorset

LC

[40]

 Cavia aperea (Erxleben, 1777)

Brazilian guinea pig

LC

[41]

 Euphractus sexcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Six-banded armadillo

LC

[40]

 Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Jaguar

NT

[39]

Birds

 Caracara plancus (Miller, 1777)

Southern caracara

LC

[42]

 Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793)

American black vulture

LC

[43]

 Glaucidium brasilianum (Gmelin, 1788)

Ferruginous pygmy-owl

LC

[43]

 Paroaria dominicana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Red-cowled cardinal

LC

[44]

 Patagioenas picazuro (Temminck, 1813)

Picazuro pigeon

LC

[43]

Reptiles

 Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Spectacled caiman

LC

[45]

 Chelonoidis carbonarius (Spix, 1824)

Red-footed tortoise

NE

[46]

 Crotalus durissus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cascabel rattlesnake

LC

[47, 46]

 Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common green iguana

LC

[46]

 Salvator merianae (Duméril & Bibron, 1839)

Black-and-white tegu

LC

[22, 23, 46]

Amphibians

 Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)

Spotted salamander

LC

[48]

 Ceratophrys joazeirensis (Mercadal de Barrio, 1986)

Caatinga horned frog

LC

[49]

 Leptodactylus vastus (Lutz, 1930)

Northeastern pepper frog

LC

[50]

 Pithecopus nordestinus (Caramaschi, 2006)

Tree frog

DD

[51]

 Rhinella jimi (Stevaux, 2002)

Jimi toad

LC

[52]

Fishes

 Amphiprion ocellaris (Cuvier, 1830)

Clown Anemonefish

LC

[53]

 Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesue, 1822)

Tiger shark

NT

[54]

 Diodon hystrix (Linnaeus, 1758)

Spot-fin Porcupinefish

LC

[55]

 Hippocampus reidi (Ginsburg, 1933)

Longsnout seahorse

NT

[55]

 Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794)

Trahira

LC

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