HERPETOLOGICAL AND VIVARIUM CONFERENCE

Pilsen, Czech Republic

34th Herpetological and Vivarium Conference

21st-23rd February

Conference program

 

Friday – 21. 2.

16:00–19:00

Registration and accommodation

19:00–21:00

Dinner

21:00–21:15

Conference opening

21:15–??? 

Leisure

Saturday – 22. 2.

7:30–9:00

Breakfast

9:00–10:00

Sebastian Scholz: Herpetological Impressions from Habitats of Cerastes gasperettii and Pseudocerastes fieldi with notes on their captive care & breeding

10:00–11:00

Xavier Glaudas: Food, Sex and the Behavioral Ecology of an African adder (Bitis arietans)

11:00–12:00

Neven Vrbanić: Herpetoculture in South Africa: 10 years of doing business with South Africa

12:00–13:00

Lunch

13:00–14:00

Peter Praschag: Conservation breeding program for the Vallarta Mud Turtle (Kinosternon vogti), the smallest turtle in the world

14:00–15:00

Mark O’Shea: In Pursuit of the Lake Serpent | Honba za jezerním hadem

15:00–15:30

Fabian Schmidt: Research influences a Conservation Breeding Programme – The European StudBook for African Dwarf Crocodiles (Osteolaemus tetraspis)

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

16:00–17:00

Xavier Glaudas: Integrating snake ecology into the snakebite problem: A case study from India

 

Sunday – 23. 2.

7:30–9:00

Breakfast

9:00–10:00

Peter Praschag: On the very brink of extinction, last chance to save the elusive Eiselt’s
Pond Turtle (Emys orbicularis eiselti) in its last known habitat

 

10:00–10:30

Fabian Schmidt: Breeding Station for the Karroo Padloper (Chersobius boulengeri) at
Basel Zoo

 

10:30–11:30

COFFEE BREAK

 

we look forward to seeing you