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Zoology

Douglas made an unexpected cameo appearance during zoologist Richard Dawkins' 1992 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

"...there was one fan letter I once had, I was enormously proud to receive, which was from Richard Dawkins who has subsequently become a good friend and is someone whose thinking I enormously admire. " From Live Chat

Zoology was one of Douglas Adams' many interests. He made a series and wrote a book Last Chance to See... about his travels around the world in search of animals on the edge of extinction.

He also contributed to BBC2's evolution weekend, discussing a lemur called the Aye-Aye.

"...When you see it is like a sort of assemblage of other sorts of animals. It has sort of ears like a fox, it has little bitey rabbit's teeth, it has eyes like a bat's, rather like Marty Feldman's eyes looking in different directions, and then it's got a tail like a giant ostrich feather. But the strangest thing is its very very thin, skeletally thin middle finger that it uses for burrowing under the bark of trees for grubs."

You can watch the video and read the transcript on the Evolution website.






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