"Archaeology, predominantly." If Daniel seems distracted, it's because he's eying the wings on the back of the red cat-beast with rapt fascination, because he's never seen such a oddly harmonious blending of different anatomies. Aliyah seems equally enthralled by the opportunity to study it up close. "Philology and, um, anthropology."

He snaps his eyes back to the speaker with some effort, it having occurred to him that this man hadn't exactly given him a first name. "What about you? Doctor, um...of what? And who? I mean, well, you know."

It's very possible he doesn't know because Daniel is not being very lexically accurate at the moment, but his attention has been partially captured by the presence of the winged catlike organism; for all his galactic travels he has never seen anything like Theta before.