So this is Ellen Weatherford. I'm here with Just the Zoo of Us.

And today I'm talking to a new friend.

Today I have Charlotte Hacker.

Say hi, Charlotte.

Hi, guys.

Thanks so much.

I'm so excited to be talking to you and talking about the awesome animal that we're doing today.

I'm really excited because this is a really cool one that I think people are going to be super psyched to hear more about. But before we really sink our claws into

this animal, I'd like to hear a little bit about you. So why don't you introduce yourself for our

friends? Sure. So my name is Charlotte. I am a PhD student at Duquesne University, which is a smaller university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

And I have one of the coolest jobs, I think, in the world.

I get to study snow leopards, which is kind of something that I fell into after, you know,

kind of years of doing conservation work in various capacities with different animals.

I previously before snow leopards did elephants and before that for my undergraduate at Wolks

University, which is a smaller school on the eastern end of Pennsylvania, I did squirrels.

So I've kind of done a little, you know, kind of gone from really small to really big

and now kind of studying this really cool

elusive predator that lives in the mountains of Central Asia.

That's kind of living the dream, right?

Oh my gosh.

It's crazy because in undergrad, when I thought of my job, I thought I would have this really

perfect straight line of getting from point A to point B and my career and everything's

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