Prof. Fritz Vollrath

Fritz Vollrath received his PhD from the Zoology Department at the University of Freiburg in Germany. After time at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Panama and the Zoology Departments at the Universities of Oxford UK, Basel CH and Aarhus DK he is now back at the Zoology Department in Oxford where he works primarily on spiders’ webs and silks.

He is also currently involved in research into Elephant behaviour at the Mpala Reseach Centre in Kenya as head of the Oxford Tracking Group and chairman of Save the Elephants, a UK charity concerned about elephant conservation.

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