• Question: Do you find your field of work interesting and why?

    Asked by to James, Natalie, Shaylon on 26 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by , , .
    • Photo: Shaylon Stolk

      Shaylon Stolk answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      I love my work, since there’s always something new to see when you’re studying animal behaviour. The birds are always adapting to changes in their habitat, and I learn lots of things about the environment from studying them.

    • Photo: Natalie Pilakouta

      Natalie Pilakouta answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      I really like studying animal behaviour because animals are really amazing and they do a lot of things that humans can’t. To be honest, I think humans are actually pretty boring! Just to give you one example of the fascinating things that animals do, scientists have recently found that in some species (mainly fish), females can tell which male is most compatible to them (GENETICALLY) and they choose to mate with that male to maximize the health and survival of their babies. And females can do this just by smelling and looking at the males! Obviously humans can’t do anything even close to this!

    • Photo: James Bell

      James Bell answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      I really do, deep sea ecology (and marine biology as a whole) has always been really fascinating to me and I love that I get to study it as my job. There’s loads we don’t know and often some real interesting adaptations in animals because the environment of the deep sea is so different to what we experience day-to-day

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