Intimate Behavior Author:Desmond Morris [Author photo] — Desmond Morris, author of the best-selling "The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo," was born in Purton, Wiltshire, England. After receiving a first-class degree in zoology from Birmingham University, he joined the animal behavior group of the Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen at Oxford and obtained his doctorate. In 1956 he moved to Lo... more »ndon as head of the newly established television unit at the London Zoo and in 1959 became Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo. 1967 saw the publication of "The Naked Ape," which has sold three million copies in twenty-three countries. In that same year Dr. Morris was appointed Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, from which post he retired to Malta to work on "The Human Zoo." 1969, the year of that book's publication, also marked his return to Oxford to research new techniques of studying human animals. Dr. Morris is currently working on a mammoth project about animal communication which will be the result of fifteen years of research.« less