Malcolm Penny

Malcolm Penny is a British zoologist and non-fiction author best known for his ornithological fieldwork in Aldabra and the Seychelles .

Life

In 1964, Penny graduated from the University of Bristol in Zoology . From 1964 to 1965 he led the University of Bristol's Seychelles expedition in the Indian Ocean, visited Aldabra and worked on Cousin Island . Due to Penny's efforts, the International Council for Bird Preservation bought this island in 1968 and placed it under strict conservation. Back in England, Penny became a conservationist with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . He made further trips to Africa, India and the Arctic. In 1968, together with Constantine Walter Benson , he published the first scientific description of the now extinct Aldabrabush singer ( Nesillas aldabrana ), who was discovered in December 1967 during an Aldabra expedition of the Royal Society . Since 1994 he has worked as a freelance writer for television companies such as the BBC, ZDF and ORF. Penny has published over 65 books, including works that have appeared in the Discovering Nature and Animal Kingdom series. He has also contributed to international journals, including Wildlife by Nigel Sitwell and Sea Frontiers .

Fonts (selection)

• The Birds of the Seychelles and the Outlying Islands, 1974
• Protecting Wildlife, 1989
• Rhinos, 1991
• How Bats see in the Dark, 1996
• Polar Seas (Seas and Oceans), 1997
• The Indian Ocean (Seas and Oceans), 1997
• Giant Panda: Habitats, Life Cycles, Food Chains, Threats, 1999
• Questions and Answers: Birds (100 questions & answers series), 2000
• What Do We Think About: Our Environment ?, 2001
• Golden Eagle: Habitats, Life Cycles, Food Chains, Threats, 2002
• Zebra, 2002
• Hidden Hibernators, 2005

Filmography (selection)

• Two Worlds (13 episodes), 1998
• African Wilderness, 1998
• A Century of Terrorism, 1998
• Africa from the Ground Up (13 episodes), 1999
• Messengers of the Spirits, 1999
• Cry of the Wolves, 2001
• Drinker's Dilemma, 2001
• Pelican Odyssey, 2003

literature

• Piers Warren: Careers in Wildlife Film-Making Wildeye, 2006. ISBN 978-0-95418-993-8 , p. 124

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sea Frontiers , Issue 18. International Oceanographic Foundation, 1972: p. 191.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} 23ème Festival International du Film Ornithologique 2004 (short biographies of the jury members) (French)
3. ↑ CW Benson, Malcolm J. Penny: A new species of warbler from the Aldabra Atoll. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 88, 1968, pp. 102-108

Web links

• Malcolm Penny in the Internet Movie Database (English)