FIRST INTERNATIONAL KING COBRA SYMPOSIUM

FIRST INTERNATIONAL KING COBRA SYMPOSIUM OCTOBER 6-8TH 2017

VAN DER VALK HOTEL , VEENENDAAL (NETHERLANDS)

Dear reptile enthusiasts,

We would like to invite you to be a part of a unique symposium! A fantastic line up of internationally renowned scientists, biologists and conservationists.

They’ll inform you on all the work being conducted in king cobra research and conservation as well as many other interesting topics.

Unfortunately the king cobra is getting more and more threatened just as many other reptile species and much work needs to be done to preserve this remarkable snake species.

This symposium has as mentioned before an incredible line up with keynote speakers as; Romulus Whitaker, Dr Bryan Grieg Fry, Matt Goode, Joe Wasilewski, Dr Colin Strine, prof Indraniel Das en Gowri Shankar, there all part of the 17 speakers take part in the symposium.

All the proceeds of the symposium will go directly to conservation and research, making it an important event for wildlife.

One of the keynote speakers will also give a presentation on a scientific breakthrough on which we’ll have the world premiere.

This makes visiting the symposium especially interesting.

Due to the enormous diversity of speakers and topics , the symposium will be suitable for a large interest group like animal enthusiasts, veterinarians, scientists, conservationists, students of biology and wildlife management, teachers of animal husbandry and ecology and also
toxicologists.

The symposium will stretch over a two day period (6 and 7 October 2017) and on the 8th visitors might be able to visit the snakeday at Houten.

All info needed for making reservations is in the symposium website: www.kingcobrasymposium.com

BAHE 25 (2), 2014. Especial SARE

BOLETÍN AHE 25 (2), 2014 – ESPECIAL SARE

Editores: Alex Richter-Boix y Ricardo Reques

Portada. JPG.

Editorial . PDF.

Introducción y primeros resultados

– Introducción al programa para el seguimiento a largo plazo de las poblaciones de anfibios y

reptiles en el territorio español (Programa SARE). PDF.

– Primeros resultados del programa SARE en anfibios. PDF.

– Ocho años de resultados generales en el SARE-reptiles. PDF.

Otros programas de seguimiento

– Observadoras/es de campo. PDF.

– Quince años de seguimiento de las poblaciones de anfibios del macizo de Peñalara (Parque

Nacional de la Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid). PDF.

– Contando ferrerets. Veinticinco años de recuentos visuales de una especie en peligro de

extinción. PDF.

– Seguimiento de las poblaciones de anfibios y reptiles en Galicia. PDF.

– Aplicación de la bioacústica al seguimiento de anfibios. PDF.

– La cuadrícula 30S VG60: un caso aplicado al seguimiento de Coronella austriaca en las sierras

béticas. PDF.

– Seguimiento de anfibios y reptiles en Doñana. PDF.

Experiencia de los coordinadores y participantes

– SARE en Andalucía. PDF.

– SARE en Aragón. PDF.

– SARE en Asturias y Cantabria. PDF.

– SARE en Castilla La Mancha. PDF.

– SARE en Castilla y León. PDF.

– SARE en Cataluña. PDF.

– SARE en Extremadura. PDF.

– SARE en Galicia. PDF.

– SARE en La Rioja. PDF.

– SARE en Madrid. PDF.

– SARE en Murcia. PDF.

– SARE en Navarra. PDF.

– SARE en resto de comunidades. PDF.

– MAPAS. PDF.

– Seguimiento de poblaciones de galápagos autóctonos en la provincia de Zamora. PDF.

Herramientas del SARE

– Recursos SARE: AHEnuario y base de datos. Utilización del SIARE para la incorporación de observaciones de anfibios y reptiles de España. PDF.

– Preguntas frecuentes. PDF.

Lista de Participantes. PDF.

Studies on the ecology of the Pyrenean newt (Calotriton asper): knowledge, conservation and future challenges

The objective for this meeting is to gather people involved and interested in the Pyrenean newt (researchers, NGOs, environmental managers, etc.) during one day in Barcelona. In addition, the participation in the congress is open to the other groups that work in the Pyrenees, which can provide complementary data for e.g. the knowledge of ecology of the species (geographers, hydrobiologists, etc.) and potential threats.

Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 15 de maig de 2017
Carrer del Carme, 47; Barcelona.

Registration is compulsory. Please write an email to the ICHN Secretariat: ichn@iec.cat.

Payment: Bank transfer to ICHN. Account Number ES51 0133 3001 2042 0000 2683, indi cating your name plus Trito Code.

Registration until the 7th of May, 2017. Fee: 15 euros. Free for students.

Organisation commitee: Delfí Sanuy, Universitat de Lleida.

Spontaneous magnetic alignment behaviour in free-living lizards

Diego-Rasilla, F.J., Pérez-Mellado, V. & Pérez-Cembranos, A. (2017). Spontaneous magnetic alignment behaviour in free-living lizards. Sci Nat, 104: 13. doi:10.1007/s00114-017-1439-7

The evidence from this study suggests that free-living lacertid lizards exhibit magnetic alignment behaviour, since their body alignments cannot be explained by an effect of the sun’s position. On the contrary, lizard orientations were significantly correlated with geomagnetic field values at the time of each observation. We suggest that this behaviour might provide lizards with a constant directional reference while they are sun basking. This directional reference might improve their mental map of space to accomplish efficient escape behaviour. This study is the first to provide spontaneous magnetic alignment behaviour in free-living reptiles. leer más >>>