by Chris Walzer, DVM

About His Story

"The capture of wildlife in remote, harsh environments is a very intense experience. It removes us from our everyday, fast-paced lives. We shift into basic survival mode and focus on the chase."

About the Author

Christian Walzer has been a professor at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, in Austria since2005. He earned his veterinary degree from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in 1990. Since that time, heworked in rural practice and served as the zoological co-director, head veterinarian, and staff researcher at Zoo Salzburg in Austria. Dr. Walzer is recognized internationally forhis expertise working with wildlife, especially wild equids and carnivores, gained from combined years of work and study in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has participated in numerous challenging field projects, including the transporting of Przewalski's horses from Europe to Mongolia, the study ofthe impacts of human intrusion on the Khulan (Wild Ass) in the Gobi Desert, and the placement of satellite monitoring collars on wild camels. He iscurrently conducting various research projects in Mongolia, for example: "Landscape level research for the conservation of the Asiatic wild ass," funded by the Austrian Science Foundation.