Desmond Morris first 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.

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.

Two years after being awarded a D.Phil. degree by Oxford University in 1954, Desmond Morris became Head of the Granada TV and Film Unit at the Zoological Society of London, making films and television programmes on animal behaviour and other zoological topics.

Thereafter, Morris became 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. He continued to present television programmes both for Granada and the BBC, including "Zootime", the first programme to adopt the novel approach of showing the natural behaviour of animals.

In addition to taking part in many BBC radio programmes on natural history subjects, he has been a regular reviewer of animal books for the Times Literary Supplement.

Desmond has researched, written, co-written and edited a succession of well-known books, many 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' humorous and lively presentations on human behaviour intrigue his audiences with unexpected insights and revelations.