Baker BBB: What has been your favorite place to discover, on or off the show? Where does Jeff Corwin like to go to get away from it all?
Jeff Corwin: I like to hang out at my island where I live with my neighbors and friends. My idea of a great night is fishing for stripers, company at our table, family and friends cooking around the hearth, cracking a nice bottle of — you know. I don't need to travel for a vacation.

Tesla: Has Jeff ever had macaw parrots on his show (as in their South American, wild areas)?
Jeff Corwin: We've featured scarlet macaws, and we've also done a bit on hyacinth macaws in Brazil. We potentially have some really neat ideas for filming macaws. I love macaws. I lived my life around them in the tropics. If I'm going to film them for my TV show, I'm going to do it in a way that portrays them as the magical, wonderful animals that they are.

Matt L. 1979: How do you know everything about every creature you run into on your adventures? Do you study before you go, do producers look stuff up, or are you just that smart?
Jeff Corwin: I'm not smart at all. You can ask my math teacher, english teacher and science teacher from high school. I was a very poor student in high school and junior high school. When I reached college, I flourished. Although we have a body of information available to our research staff and myself, my show is not scripted (I think people know that when they watch). A lot of information I share is what I see. It gets there from passive, long-term exposure to things. It's an idiot savant sort of thing. Some guy sits at a piano and can play; some guy drops toothpicks and can count them. I can't count 20 percent tip at a restaurant — I need help.

Dark Angel: What is Jeff's favorite animal?
Jeff Corwin: I love snakes: rattlesnakes — the evolutionary pathway and living experience of rattlesnakes — king snakes and many, many serpents. But I can't think of a creature that doesn't tickle my fancy.

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