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A zookeeper, author and TV presenter. He founded what is now the Durrell Wildlife Trust and Durrell Wildlife Sanctuary on the Jersey Island Channel in 1959. He wrote a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, his most famous book was My Family and Other Animals. He is the younger brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell. He was born in Jamshedpur, India on January 7, 1925. He was of English and Irish descent. Durrell reported his first visit to a zoo in India and attributed his enduring love for the animal to that encounter. Shortly before his father's death in 1928, the family moved to Britain and settled in the Upper Norwood area of Crystal Palace in south London. He attended Wakewood School, and attended St. Joseph's North Point School, Darjeeling, where he had his first experience making a movie record of his work with animals. The success of To Bafut with Beagles, and its radio show, Encounters with Animals, made Durrell a regular with the BBC's Natural History Unit for decades. He died on January 30, 1995, St. Hallier, Jersey.
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