Sujata Gupta is a freelance science writer based in Burlington, Vermont. Her work has appeared online and in print in the New Yorker, Nature, NPR, Discover, and others. Gupta appreciates any story that pairs reporting with eating, though she declined to sample Perth Zoo’s specially formulated new numbat artificial diet (a mix of powdered cat chow, eggs, water, vitamins, and crushed termite mound).