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Whether you’re a Junior Researcher, family, school, library or curious group, send the Institute your questions about animals, insects, oceans, birds and the wonderfully weird world around us.
Our wildlife experts will investigate and find you an answer. And your question might even be featured on an upcoming episode of the Extremely Questionable Creatures podcast!
Dr George
Dr Georgina Binns is a Biologist, Zoologist and Entomologist. Dr George currently works as a Biosecurity Entomologist for the Commonwealth Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
She has many areas of interest that include entomology, systematics, behavioural ecology, wildlife management, conservation biology and the impacts of climate change on our biodiversity.
Learn more about Dr George here:
Dr Kiara
Dr Kiara L’Herpiniere is a wildlife biologist, which basically means asking why animals do what they do, and why they are the way they are.
She began her biologist journey sitting in the bush, observing, listening, asking the questions, “I wonder why, or I wonder how?”
Today Dr Kiara works in museum collections
(museums have big collections of specimens behind the scenes!)
with specimens collected over centuries.
Dr Kiara is particularly fascinated by birds, especially eggs and
feathers, and everything related to their incredible colours.