- Book: "The Billion Dollar Brain"
- Zoologist, Naturalist and Author
- As a teen, spent some time working in a pet shop in London.
- (1945-46) Student animal keeper at Whipsnade Zoological Park, Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, England.
- (1947, 1948, 1956) Led and underwrote zoological expedition to Cameroon, Africa.
- (1958) Founded the Jersey Zoological Park, Channel Islands, England. Served as its director from 1964-95.
- (1972-95) Founder and chairman of Wildlife Preservation Trust International, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- (1986-95) Founder and president of Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada, Toronto.
- Hosted TV series "The Stationary Ark"
- Hosted TV series "Ark on the Move"
- Hosted TV series "The Amateur Naturalist"
- Hosted TV series "Durrell in Russia"
- Hosted TV series "Ourselves and Other Animals"
- Book: "The Amateur Naturalist"
- Book: "Ark on the Move"
- Book: "The Ark's Anniversary"
- Book: "The Aye-Aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar"
- (1954) Book: "The Bafut Beagles"
- Book: "The Battle for Castle Cockatrice"
- Book: "Beasts in My Belfry"
- Book: "A Bevy of Beasts"
- Book: "Birds, Beasts and Relatives"
- Book: "Catch Me a Colobus"
- (1968) Book: "The Donkey Rustlers"
- (1956) Book: "The Drunken Forest"
- (1958) Book: "Encounters With Animals"
- Book: "Encyclopedia of Natural History"
- Book: "The Fantastic Flying Journey"
- Book: "Fauna and Family"
- Book: "Fillets of Plaice"
- Book: "The Garden of the Gods"
- Book: "Gerald & Lee Durrell in Russia"
- Book: "Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons"
- Book: "How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist"
- Book: "Madagascar: A World Out of Time"
- Book: "Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories"
- (1964) Book: "Menagerie Manor"
- Book: "Mockery Bird"
- (1956) Book: "My Family and Other Animals"
- Book: "The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories"
- Book: "The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium"
- (1968) Novel: "Rosy Is My Relative"
- Book: "The Talking Parcel"
- (1954) Book: "Three Singles to Adventure" (aka "Three Tickets to Adventure").
- (1966) Book: "Two in the Bush".
- (1961) Book: "Whispering Land"
- (1957) Book: "Zoo in My Luggage"
- (1963) Book: "Look at Zoos".
- (1961) Book (compiler): "My Favorite Animal Stories".
- (1960) Book: "Island Zoo".
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