Ray Gabriel, the traveller
Born in Scotland, i have been keeping tarantulas since the mid 1970's. I have traveled to many countries, Borneo, Sri Lanka, Turkey etc looking for spiders I now specialize in the tarantulas of Central America and visit Panama and Nicaragua for a couple of months each year spider hunting.
I am an Honorary Associate Curator, at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, where most of my taxonomical work is done. I have published almost 90 articles and papers on tarantulas many in the journal of the British Tarantula Society, and am currently working of around 50 more, though every couple of months something happens and another is added to the list. At present I am working on around 24 new species all from Central and South America.
I currently keep around 800 - 1000 (i dont really know) live specimens from all around the world but mostly new world species.
The British Tarantula Society lecture in Budapest
| Lecturer | Event |
|---|---|
| Welcome | |
| Ray Hale | Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace: Two minds, one theory |
| Stuart Longhorn | Tarantulas of Mexico and nearby, focused on Brachypelma |
| Peter Kirk | The Spiders Of Borneo |
| Richard Gallon | The Diversity of Africa's Tarantulas |
| Ray Gabriel | Tarantulas of Panama and Nicaragua |
| Andrew Smith | 1641 - The Year Tropical Tarantulas Arrived in Europe |
| Dinner |