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Richard Shine (page 34), shown here 

 with a black-headed python, was bom in 

 Brisbane, Australia, and has been fasci- 

 nated by snakes and lizards since an early 

 age. He used to keep several at home, but 

 says "I now have enough of them to look 

 at when I'm at work." The forty-three- 

 year-old herpetologist has earned two doc- 

 torates: a Ph.D. from Australia's Univer- 

 sity of New England in 1975, and a D.Sc. 

 fi-om the University of Sydney in 1988. He 

 now teaches in the biology department at 

 the University of Sydney. Shine's field- 

 work has taken him from the chilly Brind- 

 abella Range in southern Australia to 

 northern Australia's wet-dry tropics. Shine 

 says, "My skink studies combine two of 

 my greatest interests: the biology of rep- 

 tiles, and the ways that evolutionary 

 processes operate. I'll admit to choosing 

 the Brindabellas as a study area partly be- 

 cause it has good trout streams (and I'm an 



avid fly fisherman), but the sad reality is 

 that I've been so busy working on the 

 fizards that I've never managed to even 

 unpack my rod. Still, it's good for the soul 

 to know that the trout are there." 



Roger Payne (page 40) earned his doc- 

 torate from Cornell University in 1962 

 with a dissertation on owls that locate prey 

 in total darkness by sound. His research on 

 owl and bat acoustics eventuaUy led him 

 to study whales and to finding things out 

 through observation rather than experi- 

 mentation. An accomplished cellist by av- 

 ocation, Payne is particularly attuned to 

 the sounds and rhythms of whales. "I have 

 been studying whales continuously since 

 1967," Payne says, "and one must be con- 

 tent to observe these animals with a 

 metronome on adagio." Payne, who in 



1971 established what is now caUed the 

 Whale Conservation Institute in Lincoln, 

 Massachusetts, plans to continue investi- 

 gating whale vocaUzations, as well as the 

 effects of pollution on whales and other 

 marine mammals. For more information, 

 Payne recommends: The Sierra Club 

 Handbook of Whales and Dolphins, by 

 Stephen Leatherwood and Randall R. 

 Reeves (San Francisco: Sierra Club 

 Books, 1983) and Dolphins, Porpoises 

 and Whales of the World: The lUCN Red 

 Data Book, by M. Klinowska (Washing- 

 ton, D.C.: Island Press, 1991). 



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