Dr. Ted Stankowich

Okay.

Would love to come out.

Yes, absolutely.

So most of my field work with live animals has been in the States.

I did spend my sabbatical, I spent a month in Australia about five years ago, where I chased echidnas around for about a month by myself in the bush.

It was really an amazing month, just me and a truck.

running around.

They're the easiest animals in the world to capture by hand when they're walking around.

But I loved it.

And I do a lot of museum work where we measure skulls and skins and that kind of stuff.

So that's been fun to experience other countries that way.

Eventually, I'd love to make it to Africa and work on pangolins or porcupines or

I can actually look for excuses to go out and explore.

You tend to see it more in warmer, more tropical climates where things are just more biodiverse in general.

I can speak for mammals in particular because that's what I know the best, but you see more defended species in areas that are more open, more visually exposed to predators.

and where there are larger predators that can kill you, and not as much sort of alpine or arctic types of areas.

It's more based on what aspect of your environment gives you a lot of risk from predators.

How exposed are you to a threat?

Depends how big you are.

Okay.