Telnov is married and has children.
As a teenager he worked as a volunteer at the Riga Zoo insectarium and was strongly influenced by works of Gerald Durrell and David Attenborough.
During his school days, he visited courses for young zoologists and entomologists (1987-1991) at the Latvian Natural History Museum and distantly studied biology (1990-1992) at the Lomonosov Moscow State University's Multidisciplinary distant school.
Tropical ecology, evolutionary biology and anthropology (especially of recent indigenous societies and their languages) which are his hobby interests.
Telnov is married and has children. As a teenager he worked as a volunteer at the Riga Zoo insectarium and was strongly influenced by works of Gerald Durrell and David Attenborough. During his school days, he visited courses for young zoologists and entomologists (1987-1991) at the Latvian Natural History Museum and distantly studied biology (1990-1992) at the Lomonosov Moscow State University's Multidisciplinary distant school. Tropical ecology, evolutionary biology and anthropology (especially of recent indigenous societies and their languages) which are his hobby interests.
Dmitry Telnov