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Andrei Stojanov

(MSc, zoologist)
phone: (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 688); e-mail:

Born: 12 January 1958, Sofia.
Education: Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (1986).
Speciality: zoology (herpetology).

Research interests


Ecology, ethology, zoogeography and somatometry of the amphibians and reptiles of Bulgaria and Balkan Peninsula.

Current projects


Somatometric, ecological and behaviour researches of the tortoises in Bulgaria (Testudo graeca and Testudo hermanni)
Investigations on the statement of the frog populations in Bulgaria
Current work on a Tertiary find of a giant turtle in collaboration with foreign specialists
Work on project NATURA 2000
Work on project of monitoring of biodiversity in Bulgaria

Selected publications


Stojanov A. 1997. Investigations on the growth and ethology of young Mauritanian tortoises — Testudo hermanni hermanni Gmel. (Reptilia: Chelonia: Testudinidae). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 7: 41—58.

Stojanov S. 1997. New data about the Pelobates syriacus balcanicus Kar. in Bulgaria (Amphibia: Anura: Pelobatidae). — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 7: 35—39.

Stojanov, A. 2000. Anomaly on the panzer of the two tortoises (Testudo graeca ibera and Testudo hermanni boettgeri) in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 11: 97—105.

Stojanov A. 2004. Ein seltsames Nahrungsverhalten beim Haussperling Passer domesticus — Ornithologische Mitteilungen, Jahrgang 56, Nr. 06/07, 231—232.