Herpetology


Erasmus+ CONTAN Field Training

I have just returned from three weeks at the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (UEMC) in central Tanzania, just outside Udzungwa Mountains National park, where I have been teaching as one of four main lecturers on a Field Training Course, part of the Erasmus+ project ‘Developing curricula for biodiversity monitoring and […]


A neon-green glowing gecko! 2

Today, my colleagues David Prötzel, Martin Heß, Frank Glaw, Martina Schwager, and I, have published our discovery of neon-green fluorescence in the web-footed gecko, Pachydactylus rangei from Namibia in the open access journal Scientific Reports (PDF direct download here). Just after we discovered that so many chameleons fluoresce (three years […]