Who is Gerald Durrell?
Gerald Durrell, born in Jamshedpur, India in 1925, was a British naturalist, conservationist, author, and educator. In 1958, he founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the isle of Jersey, but he is perhaps best beloved for his large series of books about animals, collecting expeditions, and zookeeping. Gerald Durrell is the brother of well known novelist Lawrence Durrell. He died in 1995 from post surgical complications related to a liver transplant. Gerald Durrell spent his childhood in India in the care of a nursemaid. He was fourth and youngest of the Durrell children. In 1928, after the death of his father, the remainder of the family returned to Britain, where they lived until 1935, when they moved to the island of Corfu in Greece. Gerald Durrell traced the beginnings of his lifelong fascination and love for animals to his time in Greece, where he collected and learned about everything that walked, swam, crawled, or flew. When war broke out, the famil
