First person – Ricardo Villalba-Briones

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ricardo Villalba-Briones is first author on ‘ Short-range Bluetooth monitoring method for tracking, monitoring and follow-up of low-mobility wild species, Choloepus hoffmanni sp.’, published in BIO. Ricardo conducted the research described in this article while a researcher and lecturer at ESPOL University, Guayaquil, Ecuador, investigating conservation of wild mammals and sustainability. He is now a laboratory technician in water quality at Labaqua, Ibaizabal bidea, Spain.