Lucy Cooke is a British zoologist, author, television producer,
director, and presenter. She has a masters in zoology from New
College, Oxford, where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins.She began
her career in television comedy production, and then moved into
documentaries, later specialising in natural history. Among others,
she is credited as director and producer for Balderdash and Piffle,
director for Medieval Lives and You Don't Know You're Born, and
presenter of Springwatch.She has presented a range of natural history
programmes for the BBC. In 2015 she presented Nature's Boldest Thieves
and Animals Unexpected. In 2016 she was a co-presenter on the four
part series Ingenious Animals. She was a team captain on the BBC Quiz
show Curious Creatures, which ran for two series from 2017 to 2018. In
2019, she presented the Animal Planet series Nature's Strangest
Mysteries: Solved.She is the author of The Truth About Animals: Stoned
Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of
Wildlife, which investigates popular misconceptions about animals,
including sloths, hyenas, penguins, and pandas. She had previously
written three books about sloths: A Little Book of Sloth, The Power of
Sloth, and Life in the Sloth Lane: Slow Down and Smell the Hibiscus.
director, and presenter. She has a masters in zoology from New
College, Oxford, where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins.She began
her career in television comedy production, and then moved into
documentaries, later specialising in natural history. Among others,
she is credited as director and producer for Balderdash and Piffle,
director for Medieval Lives and You Don't Know You're Born, and
presenter of Springwatch.She has presented a range of natural history
programmes for the BBC. In 2015 she presented Nature's Boldest Thieves
and Animals Unexpected. In 2016 she was a co-presenter on the four
part series Ingenious Animals. She was a team captain on the BBC Quiz
show Curious Creatures, which ran for two series from 2017 to 2018. In
2019, she presented the Animal Planet series Nature's Strangest
Mysteries: Solved.She is the author of The Truth About Animals: Stoned
Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of
Wildlife, which investigates popular misconceptions about animals,
including sloths, hyenas, penguins, and pandas. She had previously
written three books about sloths: A Little Book of Sloth, The Power of
Sloth, and Life in the Sloth Lane: Slow Down and Smell the Hibiscus.
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