Have you ever wondered what it means when you get that "Out of office" notification? 

Sometimes it means that I've had a change to get out into the fynbos to do some field work! Today the Hawequas mountains of Limietberg Reserve. A great day out!

Welcome to Nitya Mohanty

A new lab member starts this week in the MeaseyLab: Nitya Mohanty

Nitya studied completed his BSc. (Hons.) in Zoology from University of Delhi (2008-11) and his MSc in Wildlife Science from the Wildlife Institute of India (2011-13), where he studied the impact of invasive spotted deer on understory reptiles in the Andaman archipelago.

Nitya will be headed back the the Andaman's for his PhD dissertation on the invasive Indian Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus. 

Read more about Nitya on the CIB site here or see his page on this site here.

Featured below at the World Congress of Herpetology, (not) Hangzhou, China are:

Fred Kraus, Julien Courent, Jörn Kohler, Flora Ihlow, Dennis Rödder & Rick Shine.

Thanks to Supen Wang and my friends in Prof Yi ming Li's lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I joined a frog monitoring trip on the great plains of eastern China

It was great fun whizzing around on the dirt roads on these electric scooters!