Wildlife TV presenter LizBonnin recalls doing a masters in wild animal biology and feeling like shed bitten off way more than she could chew when trying to plan an overseas trip to study the eating habits of big cats in a national park near Kathmandu

Interview by Larissa Nolan

I studied biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. I have always been passionate about science. It is my first love and it always will be understanding how living things work, down to the chemical equations that explain them.

I had done a project on degenerative diseases and applied for a PhD as the next logical step, and I was accepted at Oxford. But I wanted to work more on learning about how to protect the planet and wildlife, which is how I ended up doing a masters in wild animal biology in the Royal Veterinary College and Zoological Society of London instead.

I wrote to them. At first they said, Well consider your application and I said, No, no can I please come in and

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