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Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, British India, on 7 January 1925. He was the fifth and youngest child (an elder sister having died in infancy) of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent.

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Gerald earned enough money from his work to start his own zoo, which had the explicit goal of preserving animals from extinction. Today, the four-word mission statement is still in place. He founded a charity organization in 1963 to manage Jersey Zoo and carry out global conservation efforts after opening it in 1959. After Gerald Durrell passed away in 1995, the charity was renamed the Durrell Wildlife Conservation charity in his honor. Gerald Durrell made a substantial and long-lasting commitment to conservation.

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How and where did Gerald Durrell start his zoo?

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How and where did Gerald Durrell start his zoo?

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That book changed my life. Durrell found himself suddenly in a position to launch his own zoo on the island of Jersey. But his aspirations didn't stop there; he had an even more audacious idea. Durrell argued that zoos should act as arks to protect endangered animals rather than menageries for amusement. He established programs for rearing animals in captivity and started conserving wild animals in their native countries.

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Gerry dies on 30 January 1995 and his ashes are buried in Jersey Zoo.

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Most of the major construction projects that Durrell & Co. helped to build in Jamshedpur still stand today, among them extensions to the Tata works, the Tinplate Company of India, the Indian Cable Company, the Enamelled Ironware Company and much else beside, including `Beldi', the home in which Gerald was born and in which he spent the first years of his life. `Beldi' was a regulation D/6 type bungalow in European Town, Jamshedpur, a residence appropriate to Lawrence Samuel Durrell's status as a top engineer — a rung or two below the Army and the Indian Civil Service, a rung or two above the box-wallahs and commercials. It was not grand, but it was comfortable, with cool, shuttered rooms, a large veranda with bamboo screens against the heat of the sun, and a sizeable garden of lawn, shrubs and trees, where Gerry the toddler took his first steps.

Gerald was never much aware of his three older siblings during his infant years in India. His elder brother Lawrence had already been packed off to school in England by the time he was born, and Leslie (now back in India) and Margaret (five years his senior), had advanced far beyond baby talk and infant toys. He was even less aware of the outer fringes of the Durrell family network — the army of aunts and his daunting paternal grandmother, Dora, the overweight, doom-preaching, oppressive and rather terrifying matriarch known as `Big Granny', who circulated around the family and was destined not to expire until 1943. For much of his time Gerald was left in the company of his Indian surrogate mother, or ayah. `In those days children only saw their parents when they were presented to them at four o'clock for the family tea,' Margaret was to recall. `So our lives revolved around the nursery and our Hindu ayah and Catholic governess. Gerry would have had more to do with the ayah than we older children did, so the biggest influence in his Indian years would have been the Indian rather than the European part of the household.'

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My Family and Other Animals" is a semi-autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalized way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. The book describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner and explores the fauna of the island. It is the first and most well-known of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, which also includes "Birds, Beasts, and Relatives" (1969) and "The Garden of the Gods" (1978). The book was published in 1956 and is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction.

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My Family and Other Animals" is a semi-autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalized way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. The book describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner and explores the fauna of the island.

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The novel is a creative mixture of natural history study and autobiographical account of the Durrell family as they live on Corfu for five years. The first in a trilogy of books on the island, "My Family and Other Animals" is a creative introduction to Gerald Durrell, child animal collector, and his eccentric family. The book is also about Greek's natural beauty as Durrell awakens a lifelong passion for botany and explores the flora and fauna of the island

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My Family and Other Animals" is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell

The book tells the story of the years that Durrell lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939+

The book describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner and explores the fauna of the island

My Family and Other Animals" is the first and most well-known of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, which also includes "Birds, Beasts, and Relatives" (1969) and "The Garden of the Gods" (1978)

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My Family and Other Animals" has been adapted into various TV shows and movies. However, the most well-known adaptation is the TV series "The Durrells," which aired from 2016 to 2019. Here are some of the actors who played the main characters in "The Durrells

starred Eugene Simon as Gerald Durrell, Imelda Staunton as Louisa Durrell, and Omid Djalili as Spiro Hakiaopoulos