You know how there was that book that was like eat, pray, love?

You know, I feel like this would be, this, this would be the opposite of that.

It would be like illness, betrayal, you know, confusion.

Race first trip to the field.

Wonderful. Ray's first trip to the field. When I turned on my flashlight, it illuminated the tent.

I saw this shadow circling the tent.

And my heart leapt into my throat.

I'm Dr. Raywin-Grant, and this is a different kind of nature show, a podcast all about

the human drama of saving animals.

I want to tell you my story and what it's actually like to track bears and the

sierras, chase lemurs and Madagascar, live with lions in Tanzania,

and do all of that as a black female scientist.

This is Going Wild. This is going wild.

I have this awesome career and that's that. You know, it's like very simply, I'm super happy in my career, and this is year 16 of me being

in wildlife ecology.

I mean, I traveled to six of the seven continents on this earth. I know so much about wildlife. And I really

don't feel like I would be happy doing anything else. And yet, it definitely wasn't always like this.

When I was a kid watching nature shows was my favorite thing to do. I mean, cartoons were cool, but nature shows were totally my jam.

So when I was on my way to college, I was already thinking, you know, I think environmental science would be a really good fit for me.

So I started taking these environmental science classes and hated it.

Oh, I just thought it was awful, which made me even more confused because I thought,

oh, I love nature shows. And pretty quickly I was able to realize, oh, you know what,

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