WILD ABOUT SCIENCE: From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer with Dr. Mireya Mayor
Dr. Mireya Mayor, a former NFL cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, daughter of Cuban immigrants, and mother of six, knows of what she speaks. “I was a cheerleader who had grown up taking ballet and piano lessons,” she said in an interview with the National Geographic. It was in anthropology class during college when the desire to pursue the study of primates hit her. “I was seized by the fact that some of the most incredible animals on the verge of extinction had never been studied, and that in some cases, not even a mere photograph existed to show their existence.”
