Professor Paul Thompson doesn't feel the need to travel far and wide for his job - the UK has plenty of wildlife issues on its own front door that need resolving, he tells Sarah Marley, and he has a lot of fun doing it. OUR FIRST PROPER ENCOUNTER wasa stormy one - well, windy at least. Bobbing in a small boat off the coast of Cromarty in north-east Scotland, with the wind blowing and rain falling, we searched along the coastline for a group of bottlenose dolphins. After an hour, we found a small podand began photographing their dorsal fins for individual identification. Despite the weather, the cold and the green faces of some group members, the man at the controls was grinning, a look of pure happiness on his face as we followed the dolphins along the coast. This, I thought, was a man who loved his job.
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