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Article: CONFESSIONS OF A NAKED APE; Lunch at the Cafe Royal with Congo the chimpanzee, necking with Diana Dors . . . and a male friend's painfully intimate encounter with a raven. In his enchanting new autobiography, Desmond Morris describes a life with animals - and that includes humans - which has taught him so much . . .
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2006
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Byline: DESMOND MORRIS
THE QUEEN knows a thing or two about the natural world. As we assembled on the lawns of Buckingham Palace, all formalities were in place for Her Majesty to receive a present from the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev.
He was giving the then very young Princess Anne a Russian bear cub, and this unlikely ceremony was to form the first show in my 1950s television series Zootime.
The Queen was not amused by the proceedings, however. She had evidently noted the scars on the hands of the head keeper as he arrived to show the Princess her new toy. The cub began to emit throaty, snarling roars - this was clearly a monster in ...