John Speakman’s interest in science was spurred by his early interest in birds. “I was a very keen birdwatcher, and I used to spend lots of time watching birds in my youth,” he says. At age 16, he would go to the same site every day to count small wading birds and try to work out the factors influencing their numbers.

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约翰·R·斯皮克曼简介 [简介]

John Speakman 对科学的兴趣源于他早期对鸟类的兴趣。“我是一个非常热衷于观鸟的人，我年轻时经常花很多时间观察鸟类，”他说。16 岁时，他每天都会去同一个地点数小涉禽，并试图找出影响它们数量的因素。