David Taylor, one of the world's few wildlife vets, has become even better known since his life and work formed the basis of the BBC television series One by One. This latest collection of adventures, the sixth, from his casebook includes accounts a day in an oasis and the exotic dinner requests of a sheikh the sad fate of dolphins in the polluted Adriatic an encounter with the White Lady, a very poisonous female indeed and an assortment of other moments with rare and wild animals and sometimes equally wild humans. 'Compassion, veterinary skill, excitement, spiced with humour' James Herriot
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David Conrad Taylor, BVMS, FRCVS, FZS, was a British veterinary surgeon. He was the first veterinary surgeon to specialise in zoo and wildlife medicine. Taylor worked with zoo and wild animals from 1957, acting as a consultant on the treatment of some of the rarest species on Earth. He was world-renowned as an expert in marine mammal medicine. In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, Taylor wrote a popular series of autobiographical books that charted his life and experiences as a "Zoo Vet". These books were adapted for Television in a drama series, One by One. He continued to be a prolific writer until his death. [wikipedia]
