• Question: whats your most thrilling experience ever??

    Asked by aimm17 to Hermine, Katy, Laura, Nathalie, Paula on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Nathalie Pettorelli

      Nathalie Pettorelli answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi there,

      The first time I learned to dive – I dived for the first time very late, and I was thrilled being at 25m depth, watching my first barracuda. There’s also the first time I slept in a tent in the serengeti – knowing that lions and hyenas were walking just near by – very thrilling… 🙂

    • Photo: Hermine Schnetler

      Hermine Schnetler answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      White river rafting on the Zambezi river in Zambia. It starts almost under the Victoria falls.

    • Photo: Paula Salgado

      Paula Salgado answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      The first time I performed on stage with my amateur drama group at University. I was very, very nervous but the adrenaline was pumping and I loved every moment of it! And when the audience clapped and I realised they really enjoyed it, I was flying with excitement! 😉

    • Photo: Katy Mee

      Katy Mee answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      It has to be sitting on the edge of a 200m high cliff, several thousand meters up in the Andes Mountains in Chile and seeing an enormous condor suddenly appear about 20ft away – they have a 3m wingspan and are one of the biggest flying birds in the world, so it’s a pretty terrifying yet incredible sight!

    • Photo: Laura Dixon

      Laura Dixon answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Weirdest thing as a scientist or in life in general?? lol
      As a scientist the weirdest thing I did was for part of my PhD – I was studying why chickens kept in certain environments peck and eat the feathers off each other (which is quite painful for the recipient). I needed to watch the birds peck feathers but I didn’t want to use a live bird as the ‘victim’ since it is painful. Some older chickens were being culled at the time (its routine in production-like settings to get rid of the older birds :P) so I took a few dead birds, and posed them in a ‘natural’ chicken sitting postures then put them in the freezer. These frozen birds then would maintain their position for hours and I could let live birds peck at their feathers without worrying about the ‘victim’ 😛 Yes, I know this sounds really bizzare! lol

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