The Zoologists' Campfire

by Dr. Arie van der Meijden

Biologists, naturalists, zookeepers and other animal professionals tell their most exciting stories about working with animals and in the field.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Miquel Arnedo on hiding hippos, rolling stones, and the culture of isolated islands

    Miquel Arnedo on hiding hippos, rolling stones, and the culture of isolated islands

    Evolutionary biologist Miquel Àngel Arnedo specializes in spiders in isolated ecosystems. He takes us to Africa, Turkey and the islands off Chile. More about Miquel: https://www.marnedo.net/ https://twitter.com/SpiderSysEvo https://www.instagram.com/spidersysevo/ Video on YouTube for this episode: https://youtu.be/CBO-meVmh6M

  • Sergé Bogaerts -fired up for fire salamanders

    Sergé Bogaerts -fired up for fire salamanders

    Biologist and ecologist Sergé Bogaerts on finding salamanders in Turkey, Syria and Tunisia. More about Sergé: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Serge-Bogaerts https://www.facebook.com/serge.bogaerts.7 You can find the video for this episode here: https://youtu.be/ea0iq-1AsIY Subscribe to the Zoologists' Campfire podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/thezoologistscampfire/ Or find us on: Spotify Apple Podcasts Amazon Music Samsung Podcasts Pandora Deezer and other podcast distributors!

  • Chasing lizards around the lab and the Mediterranean with Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

    Chasing lizards around the lab and the Mediterranean with Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

    Research biologist Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou is a specialist on lizard evolution, and follows her passion for lizards all around the Mediterranean More about Antigoni: https://sites.google.com/view/akaliontzopoulou/ https://sites.google.com/view/phenevol/team Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/JWsjNYatOXI

  • Bears, monkeys and logistics with Ana Luisa Santos and Michael Sanderson of Ateles Films

    Bears, monkeys and logistics with Ana Luisa Santos and Michael Sanderson of Ateles Films

    Wildlife film makers Ana Luisa Santos and Michael Sanderson of Ateles Films take us along on three of their adventures. More about Ateles Films: https://www.ateles.org/ https://www.instagram.com/atelesfilms/ Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/g3deh30lDIw

  • Raymond Tilburg transports tigers, boards bumblebees and checks-in chicks

    Raymond Tilburg transports tigers, boards bumblebees and checks-in chicks

    Raymond Tilburg is an animal transport expert helping millions of animals travel around the globe with minimal discomfort. He tells us about the day-old chicks or bumblebees that may be on your flight, feeding tiger cubs while flying high over the ocean, and why you should not give tranquilizers to your dog before a flight. More about Raymond Tilburg and his work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-tilburg-36ab944/ https://www.animaltransportationassociation.org https://www.ipata.org/ Watch the video for this episode: https://youtu.be/oRS_RDLU5Zg