Dr. Amanda Duffus: Ranaviruses and Phylogenetics

Today I had a great chat with Julia Riley, a behavioural & evolutionary ecologist. You can find her on Twitter @jr4science!

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

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.

A good chat with Josh Cox from Reptile Encounters about how important it is to get to know our native animals and other stuff.

A good chat with Dr. Amanda Duffus - an infectious disease biologist who works on ranaviruses in amphibians. 

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.

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.

A good chat with Dr. Georgia Ward-fear about her work and the Cane Toad Coalition.

I chat with Scott Eipper about venomous snakes and more

In this episode I chat with dr Hamish Baron Unusual pet vet