Mark Moffett / Man smoking a pipe, Deh Bala, Iran

Mark Moffett / Biologist Sheda Morshed holding a hedgehog, Kerman, Iran

Mark Moffett / Biologist Hadii Fahini sweating on bus near the Bandar Abbas Dunes, Iran

Mark Moffett / Biologist Jim Patton pinning fresh rodent specimens, Aaabshar-rayen, Iran

Mark Moffett / Researcher Jim Patton and assistants process rodent specimens for museum as military guard watches, Aaabshar-rayen, Iran

Mark Moffett / Black Rat (Rattus rattus) researcher Hadi Fahini with rat caught living in Mangrove swamp, roots (Pneumatophores) are evident in the background, Hara Protected Area, Iran

Mark Moffett / Researcher Mohammed Javidkar with hand made rodent trap, Zabul, Iran

Mark Moffett / Biologist Sheda Morshed checks mammal traps, Kerman, Iran

Mark Moffett / Jim Patton with wife and mammal collecting assistants, Kerman, Iran

Mark Moffett / Montugary family serves tea, Deh Bala, Iran

Mark Moffett / Herpetologist Bob Macy with military guard, Seyed Ali, Iran

Mark Moffett / Researchers' military escort gets ice from bus while maintaining high speed, near the Afghan border, Iran

Mark Moffett / Village woman and children, concealing attire, must be worn in public by all women over the age of seven, Kaht, Iran

Mark Moffett / Spiny Darkling Beetle, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Mark Moffett / Aspiring biologist holds owl caught in mist net in the guest house, Kerman, Iran

Mark Moffett / Herpetologist Bob Macy with a new lizard species, Iran

Mark Moffett / Trip coordinator, Jahangiri, looks for Lizards with militia guard nearby, Zabul, Iran

Mark Moffett / Mouse-like Hamster (Calomyscus sp) in palm of hand, Iran

Mark Moffett / Farmers who collected hedgehogs for Jim Patton, agricultural station near Zabul, Iran

Mark Moffett / Jim Patton with audience giving impromptu lecture on how to properly dissect a rat, agricultural station near Kerman, Iran

Mark Moffett / Jim Patton and Sheda with Iranian mammologist Houshang Ziaie in boat on way to mangrove swamps, Hara protected area, Iran

Mark Moffett / Carol Patton of University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology searches for traps in highlands near Darmazar, Kerman Province, Iran

Mark Moffett / Researcher Jim Patton lays down traps to collect rodents in desert, Iran

Mark Moffett / Mammal collectors line up to show Jim Patton their captured rodents, Shadad, Iran

Mark Moffett / Hadi Fahini dashes after lizard with a fishing pole, near Zabul, Iran

Mark Moffett / Herpetologist Soheila Shafii cools off under a waterfall, Seyed Ali, Iran

Mark Moffett / Girls collecting Alaleh plants, medicinal plants used for colds, near Darmazar, Kerman Province, Iran

Nigel Marven / Cave salamander on rock {Batrachuperus persicus} Iran

Nigel Marven / Fishermen with Common atlantic sturgeon caught for caviar. Iran {Acipenser sturio} Caspian sea

Nigel Marven / Common atlantic sturgeon for sale for caviar {Acipenser sturio} Caspian sea Iran