Career
In 2001 he published The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William. Foreign much of the next decade he worked as a primatologist / taxonomist for the United States.-based non-governmental organization Conservation International, co-authoring various books and academic papers. Notable among these were Lemurs of Madagascar (book) and the massive primate volume to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series (for which he also produced all the maps).
He also lived and worked, for a time, at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
He is currently working on "A Global Survey of Threatened and Recently-Extinct Vertebrates"(thirteen volumes), as well as on a related series entitled "Life Before Manitoba".
