Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy,Lord Medway Gathorne

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Family Name

Gathorne-Hardy

Given Name

Gathorne

Birth Date

1933

Nationality

British

Job Title

Zoologist, Biologist, Naturalist

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathorne_Gathorne-Hardy,_5th_Earl_of_Cranbrook

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Lord Medway was an assistant at the Sarawak Museum, Sarawak, a British colony on the north-west coast of Borneo, 1956-8. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, (born 20 June 1933), styled Lord Medway until 1978, is a British zoologist, biologist, naturalist, and peer. Since 1956, he has been active in the fields of ornithology, mammalogy, and zooarchaeology, and has influenced research and education in Southeast Asia. His career focus was on swiftlets and other small Southeast Asian birds, as well as on mammals, including orangutans.He is the author of Wild Mammals of South-East Asia (1986), Wonders of nature in South-East Asia (1997) and Swiftlets of Borneo: Builders of Edible Nests (2002) and Key Environments: Malaysia (2013), which had a foreword from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. (Wikipedia)

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