[1] During high school, Riskin read a book called Just Bats by M. Brock Fenton.

[2] Riskin has studied bats in Costa Rica, United States, Canada, Anguilla, France, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad, Ecuador, South Africa and Madagascar and has filmed in United States, Morocco, England, China and Germany.

Years later, Riskin joined the show as the replacement for long-time host Jay Ingram.

[2] Riskin appears on the Animal Planet series Monsters Inside Me, which is about parasites, as an expert.

In 2010, Riskin became the co-host of Daily Planet, on Discovery Channel Canada with Ziya Tong.