A biologist at the University of Vermont, Heinrich was initially confused.
Sally Hamilton, a marine biologist and director of Orca, a charity devoted to whale and dolphin protection, said: "Numerous boats wouldn't be something they were used to.
Brought up in Cambridge with his father, a Buddhist molecular biologist, and his mother, a singer, he went on to study the music of Cuban, Honduran and Congolese artists, traces of which feature subtly in his own music.
Sonia Peixoto, a biologist who works for the town hall's conservation unit, said the decision to build had been taken without proper consultation.
Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola in the wild before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos.
Last year, James Watson, who helped to discover the double-helix structure of DNA, put his own medal up for auction, only for the new owner, billionaire Alisher Usmanov, to return it to the biologist – despite shelling out £2.6m.
The documentary profile, on the work of biologist Tyrone Hayes, manages to artfully convey the work of its subject despite its brief running time, and the dramatisation of the short story gets across Rich's wry, Thurber-ish style.
"My friend Eric Karsenti, a molecular biologist, suggested we should do a study of plankton.
As a structural biologist I appreciate more than most the lengths he has gone to to get things right.
To find out, I'm heading to the 4th Annual Morgellons Conference in Austin, Texas, to meet a molecular biologist who doesn't believe the medical consensus.
Since 2013, Narayanan Vasudevan, the head of Mumbai's Mangrove Cell and a marine biologist by training, has been charged with managing and protecting 5,469 hectares of this vital natural infrastructure in Mumbai and the suburban reaches of Navi Mumbai.
