Pavel Kvapil graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, in the Czech Republic in 2005. He started working as a veterinarian at the Ljubljana Zoo in Slovenia in 2008, and he became the head veterinarian in 2014. He finished a dissertation with a focus on infectious diseases in zoo animals and wild animals at the Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology at the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno.