biography
| name: |
Durrell, Gerald (Malcolm)
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pronunciation:
[duhrel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1925–95)
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| biography:
| British zoologist, traveller, writer, and broadcaster, born in Jamshedpur, E India, the brother of Lawrence Durrell. He was a student keeper at Whipsnade Zoo (1945–6), then went on several animal collecting expeditions to Cameroon, Guyana, and other countries. His popular animal stories and reminiscences include My Family and Other Animals (1956), A Zoo in My Luggage (1960), Birds, Beasts and Relatives (1969), Catch me a Colobus (1972), The Mockery Bird (1981), Marrying Off Mother (1991), and The Aye-Aye and I (1992). His television work includes The Amateur Naturalist (1983) and Ourselves and Other Animals (1987). He founded the Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, and was founder chairman of Wildlife Preservation Trust International in 1972. |
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