Nicholas Rowan Baker is an English naturalist and television presenter, notably on Children"s British Broadcasting Corporation"s The Really Wild Show.
Education
He regularly tours schools with his animals to educate school children and often works with the RSPB.
Baker lives in Chagford on Dartmoor along with a growing menagerie of small animals including spiders, scorpions, stick insects, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies and moths. He keeps pet leeches in the fridge at home and often feeds them by attaching them to his legal Among his favourites are cane toads and a collection of hissing cockroaches.
Baker"s talents are not limited to natural history.
He cycles competitively and learned to play the harmonica when he was in school.
He is also a percussionist and singer, and he regularly performs in jazz and blues bands.
Career
As a field naturalist, he has researched the high brown fritillary butterfly on Dartmoor and worked with badgers, also in Devon. British Broadcasting Corporation In Nick Baker"s Under the Skin on British Broadcasting Corporation Two, Baker attempted to get under the skin of animals such as grizzly bears, penguins, rattlesnakes and rhinos - examining their habitats and behaviour in his own way. In 1999 Baker worked on two science series.
He presented Twister and joined the presenting team of the science series, Tomorrow"s World.
Other ventures have included co-presenting British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s Watch Out with Simon King. Nick Baker"s Weird Creatures was frequently ridiculed on Harry Hill"s television Burp.
Selections of the show were shown featuring Nick Baker performing poorly, or where a mundane or disappointing animal is featured. This included one episode where Nick went to find a basking shark off the coast of Cornwall, but instead found only otters, seagulls and a dog.
After the last of the episodes had been shown Nick Baker appeared on television Burp and called Hill a "cheeky git", after throwing a custard pie in Harry"s face at the end of a musical number.
Radio Baker is a regular contributor to Radio 4"s The Natural History Programme and writes for many publications including the British Broadcasting Corporation Wildlife Magazine, Wildlife Watch, RSPB"s Bird and Birdlife magazines, the Young Telegraph, the Bug Club magazine, Wild About Animals and FBX magazine. Education.
Membership
He co-founded Exeter University"s national Bug Club and was a member of the Royal Entomological Society"s Youth Development Committee.