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Hi, I'm Dikshra. So my question is, how do scientists come to know if a species is about to go extinct?

Do they actually go and count the number of animals out there? Thank you.

Hello. Hey, Dikshra, it's Flora from ELT. Hey, Flora.

Are you more of an animal lover or a counting lover?

I'm more of an animal lover. Did you have pets growing up?

So the thing is, my parents, they are scared of animals. So we never had pets.

But when I got married, we did get fish and I had like lots of fish.

How many is lots?

So at one point, I think I had like 10, maybe 15.

I love them, so.

Did you name each one?

Oh, yeah. I did.

And I named them for all the big bank theory cast.

So I started with Sheldon and Leonard and Penny.

Were you able to count them? Did you know your population size?

Yeah, I was able to count all of them.

I mean, after you've washed the fish for quite some time, you can identify which one is which.

So how did you start wondering about counting endangered animals?

So I mean, I watched a lot of animal documentaries.

When I'm cooking in the background, I like to just put something on the TV.

And I was just watching a documentary about some kind of leopard.

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