A celebrated author, wildlife presenter, contributor, Nick loves to literally get under the skin of animals. “Which I did - grizzly bears, penguins, rattlesnakes and rhinos, and went on to examine their habitats and behaviour,” he says. But it’s is fascination for weird creatures that gets us asking about his encounters of the creepy kinds. “The whole idea of the series, Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures, is that I have watched so much TV and I keep seeing lions and tigers and elephants over and over again. They’re very important, but they aren’t the only animals on earth. The whole idea is to show people animals that don’t necessarily make the headlines.” But can insects and reptiles qualify as pets? “People run at the very mention of a lizard. That’s because people don’t actually bother to see beyond—they don’t understanding them. So what happens is this sort of fear, this irrational fear of these things gets passed on down through the generations.”

He wants to see the pink fairy armadillo before he dies, but he’d also want to come back to India one more time. “The food, the people…I loved the chaos here. There’s so much of India that people just don’t even realize exists. The biodiversity, great animals and fantastic wild places….here’s a country that was more beautiful and more tunning than anything I expected to see,” Nick’s filmed the gharial crocodile in India, and during this course, he had a ball with the skittering frogs, chickens, peacocks, fabulous varieties of birds and, freshwater dolphins.