• Question: How did you first become interested in tenrecs?

    Asked by scienceiscool to Sive on 14 Nov 2013.
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      Sive Finlay answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Hi,

      Some people know exactly what they want to do for their PhDs but I didn’t have any particular plan. So I ended up studying tenrecs by chance and good luck 🙂
      When I was in the 3rd year of my degree we did a course where we learned about all the different types of vertebrates. That was the first time I heard about tenrecs and I just thought they were weird and cool. Then, during the final year of my degree, a new lecturer started working at the department. She had an idea for a PhD project that would compare tenrecs to other mammals which I found really interesting. I also knew the project would involve lots of travel to natural history museums and hopefully a trip to Madagascar so I jumped at the chance 🙂
      Sive

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