![]() ![]() Once I was there, it became quite obvious we were going to be together. “I was really quite naive and didn’t realise at the time that it was just a ploy to get me to Jersey. After he visited my university a few years later to see the lemur breeding programme, he telephoned and asked me to come to Jersey and set up a sound-recording laboratory (I was studying animal communication). He’d been my hero ever since I’d got his books out of the mission library in Madagascar where I was doing my PhD research. “They say you should never meet your heroes,” says Lee. At 52, he was 24 years older than she was. Enlisted by Durrell to drive him to a university dinner at a local restaurant, they got so distracted talking about wildlife that they arrived hours after everyone else. So when Durrell visited Duke University, in North Carolina, in 1977, she was excited. It was also the book that had ignited Lee’s own passion for conservation. ![]()
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