Dr. Desmond Morris

For nearly forty-five years Desmond Morris has studied the behaviour patterns of animals and, in particular, humans. His life-long crusade to understand and make sense of animal and human behaviour goes back to before 1951, when he obtained a first class honours degree in Zoology at the University of Birmingham.
Desmond Morris startled the world with his outrageous book “The Naked Ape” (translated into 23 languages). In this brilliant study, he reminds us that man is relative to the apes--is in fact, the greatest primate of all.
Morris, a trained zoologist, was the curator of mammals at the London Zoo from 1959 to 1971, where he was responsible for the largest collection of wild felines in the world. In the meantime he has been captivating television audiences for some ten years with 'Zootime', the first programme adopt the novel approach of showing the natural behaviour of animals.
Desmond has researched and written a succession of well-known books, some of which he turned into highly successful TV programmes such as : The Naked Ape, The Human Zoo, Intimate Behaviour, Manwatching, Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution, Bodywatching, Animalwatching, Babywatching, The World of Animals, and Body Talk.
Desmond Morris’s humorous and lively presentations on Human Behaviour intrigue his audiences with unexpected insights and revelations.