My parents were both biologists and surrounded me with science all of the time. In fact, one of the first words they ever taught me was ctenophore, which is kind of a comb jelly in the ocean and they said, “T
NO
FOUR.” That was one of the first words I learned growing up. I was always just surrounded by animals and science.
My parents got divorced when I was about eight years old and actually, I even got more inundated because my mom married one of the world’s experts in fireflies after that, so now three of my four parents are scientists! I was always interested in a whole variety of animals and probably thought, at some point, that being a scientist was a really cool thing to do.