Thank you #WCH9 #WCH2020 for a week of excellent science! Great fun to meet herpetologist from all over the world, I learned a ton!
Thank you #Dunedin #NewZealand for the breathtaking landscapes, amazing animals and kind people!
While reptiles with feathers are not my favorite herps, little blue penguins melted my heart last night 😍
These little guys spend all day swimming and eating out at see and come back to the colony at night. It’s the smallest sp of penguin (~1kg, 33cm) 🐧
#WCH9 #WCH2020
Road avoidance by @jamesepaterson: Turtles are traveling longer distances to avoid roads but the extra cost is small compared to their investment on reproduction. Similar findings for snakes
Mortality is the biggest cost of roads for turtles & snakes #WCH9 #WCH2020
#caecilian expert Mark Wilkinson @Atretochoana of @NHM_London talking about the much needed progress in #genome mapping of three species at #WCH9 #WCH2020
Dragons living in the city have diff microbiome than those from natural areas by Nicola Kent - they eat food higher in fats and similar to that of city mammals 🦎🍔🍟🍕 #WCH9 #WCH2020
Pygmy bluetongue lizards prefer to occupy burrows made by trapdoor spiders by @ClaytonJessa
A neat system where lizards eat spiders and the other way around + look at those cute faces she sees when peeking into burrows! #WCH9 #WCH2020
Integrating captive-breeding and research for conservation of Panamanian #frogs at risk of extinction in the wild - @BrianGratwicke talks about the successes & challenges of trying to save Panamanian golden frogs.
Lots learned so far! @stri_panama #WCH9 #WCH2020
Promising findings for a wildlife vaccine against the chytrid fungus by Taegan McMahon - vaccines w/only the metabolites from Bd reduce infection load 🤯 #WCH9 #WCH2020
Diversification via paedomorphosis in #salamanders - Ronald Bonett talks about how some species lose the terrestrial stage and increase number of vertebrate getting eel-like shapes #WCH9 #WCH2020
Reminder! The first of the two #caecilian talks at #WCH2020 is on tomorrow!
