The Herpetile PodcastJun 21, 2020
Julia Riley: behavioural and evolutionary ecology
Chelsea Connor: The Anole Queen
Here’s the link to Chelsea’s anole stickers!: ChelseaHerps.redbubble.com.
Great episode here we talk about anoles and BlackBirder Week with Chelsea Connor!
And here’s a link to her twitter: https://bit.ly/2CvnaLq
Melissa Amarello: Advocates for Snake Preservation (ASP)
A great chat with Melissa Amarello, one of the co-founders of Advocates for Snake Preservation. We talk about how important it is to change the way people think about snakes in order to support conservation efforts.
Josh Cox: Reptile Encounters
A good chat with Josh Cox from Reptile Encounters about how important it is to get to know our native animals and other stuff.
Dr. Amanda Duffus: Ranaviruses and Phylogenetics
A good chat with Dr. Amanda Duffus - an infectious disease biologist who works on ranaviruses in amphibians.
Steven Allain: Barred Grass Snakes & Ophidiomycosis
A good short chat with Steven Allain about his work with Barred Grass Snakes and ophidiomycosis, as well as Midwife Toads.
Check out Steven's website here.
Dr. Ricky Spencer: 1 Million Turtles
A great chat with Dr. Ricky Spencer, Senior Lecturer of Zoology at the University of Western Sydney.
Ricky is the head of Wildlab and a researcher of vertebrate pest control methodologies. Ricky is the manager of TurtleSAT and WombatSAT, which are community mapping Citizen Science projects.
Did you know that over the last 40 years most common and widespread turtle species have declined by up to 91% because of introduced invasive species such as foxes who prey on their nests and eat adult females.
Ricky works on the 1 Million Turtles project, which aims to be Australia's largest community empowered conservation program to release more than 1 million extra turtles through South Eastern Australia each year.
Georgia Ward-Fear the cane toad coalition
A good chat with Dr. Georgia Ward-fear about her work and the Cane Toad Coalition.
Scott Eipper: youngest licensed venomous keeper
Hamish Baron: Unusual Pet Vet
Russell Grant: Green Tree Pythons
Welcome to the Herpetile Podcast
Welcome to the Herpetile podcast. my name is Nash and i love herpetology. this podcast explores all things to do with reptiles and amphibians. I hope you like it!