The conservationist Gerald Durrell’s first dog, Simon, was a coward. To the honey-coloured cocker spaniel, a garden hose was as deadly as a spitting cobra, and he once went into a nervous decline ...

A ZOO IN MY LUGGAGE (198 pp)—Gerald Durrell—Viking ($3.95). Gerald Durrell once awakened in pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a ...

Tuesday 7th January 2025, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, the world-renowned author and naturalist Gerald Durrell. To mark the ...

BIRDS, BEASTS AND RELATIVES by Gerald Durrell. 248 pages. Viking. $5.95. Naturalist Gerald Durrell’s boyhood memoir, My Family and Other Animals, delighted nearly everyone except his family. The book ...

both pen, ink and watercolour drawings, signed "Paul Cox" lower left, inscribed with title below mounts, mounted, framed and glazed ...

A new type of beetle has been named in tribute to Gerald Durrell, the author and naturalist who founded Jersey Zoo. The species was christened Macratria durrelli by Natural History Museum insect ...

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