[This excited, enraptured tone actually reminds Robert of Don when Don is talking about an invention he's devising, or something of the sort. It's the same sort of glee of an idea borne into reality... it's a little intoxicating.]

My... p-particular field is astrobiology, so... primarily I am f-familiar with life from other planets...

... B-But my time in Luceti has... allowed me to focus my s-studies on Terran - and pre-Terran life f-forms as well.

[... Especially turtles.]