Matthew Rowe on his close encounters with snakes, scorpions, and a brazen baboon called Wimpy

Rodrigo Willemart on ant-guided dating, and not drowning on an empty stomach

Zoologist George Beccaloni on growing up in Africa, butterflies, cockroaches and Wallace

Marianne Porter on sharks, the scientific mindset and a tremendous underwater experience

Running for your life with Anthony Herrel

Miquel Arnedo on hiding hippos, rolling stones, and the culture of isolated islands

Sergé Bogaerts -fired up for fire salamanders

Chasing lizards around the lab and the Mediterranean with Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

Bears, monkeys and logistics with Ana Luisa Santos and Michael Sanderson of Ateles Films

Raymond Tilburg transports tigers, boards bumblebees and checks-in chicks

Michael J. Jowers; Scary scorpions to Caribbean amphibians

The joys and perils of fieldwork in Angola with Javier Lobon Rovira

Marieta Braks; Mosquitos vs People

Roel Wouters; adventures in the Netherlands, Arizona, Borneo and Bolivia

José Carlos Brito on the Mauritanian desert

Exploring Morocco with James Harris

Getting lost in Madagascar with Angelica Crottini

Hunting big snakes with Ignazio Avella