Dr. Dino Martins

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Science Friday · Beautiful botflies, luscious leeches, and the wonder of parasites · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes, I did.

You know, so I was very lucky to live in different parts of Kenya growing up and lived for part of the time on the plain south of Nairobi at a place called Kitangela and surrounded by all kinds of different animals.

And, well, BZ, as we called him, which stands for baby zebra, he, yes, we weren't very imaginative with some of the names we...

We also had Craney, who was a crane, and Mary Boo, who was a marabou stalk.

So BZ kind of fitted with the rest of the family.

What happened, there was a drought.

And during drought, you know, many baby animals, other animals get kind of abandoned or there's other kind of disruptions.

And that's how BZ was found because he'd been in the drought.

He'd been abandoned.

He was very thin and kind of full of parasites and starving.

So he was found one day and he was brought to me and I had to learn how to take care of him.

Absolutely.

And I've been very lucky to have teachers and vets and lots of other people who've supported me and encouraged me in being curious.

But even when I haven't had a lot of encouragement, I'm very curious and I can be quite in a very, I think a gentle way, be quite pushy.

And I remember in school showing up with various parasites and some of the teachers were horrified, but at least they didn't discourage me.

They were like, okay, we can learn about this.

Absolutely.

And I think one of the things about insects, you know, everyone was like, you grew up in Kenya, why didn't you study lions or rhinos or elephants or go off and study even, you know, other big animals.

But growing up, I was often quite alone.

And

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