Vladimir Dinets grew up in Russia and immigrated to the United States as a young man in the late nineties. In 2011, he received his PhD in Zoology at the University of Miami, studying songs and dances of crocodiles and alligators. After obtaining his degree, he worked at Louisiana State University on whooping crane reintroduction and studied play behavior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dinets continues to study animal behavior and rare, little-known animals. He has traveled to more than a hundred countries for his research and for leisure. His books about nature and travel diaries have been popular in Russia for the past twenty years. Visit his website at dinets.info.