1 ‘film shows and lectures’: Quoted from Look and Learn, accessed at http://www.lookandlearn.com/childrens-newspaper/CN650410-012.pdf on 8 June, 2016.
2 ‘there might still be persons’: KV 2/1017/1105a.
3 he had named ‘Olga’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 43–44.
4 ‘The only time I realised’: Desmond Morris, telephone interview with author, February 2015.
5 ‘an avuncular, friendly old’: ‘Desmond Morris: Oral History Transcription,’ interview by Christopher Parsons, 6 September, 2000, transcript, WildFilmHistory, Bristol.
6 ‘There are very few’: Knight, My Pet Friends, viii.
7 ‘Spaniels, Labradors’: Ibid., 24.
8 ‘an excellent house-dog’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 94.
9 ‘all the species of crow’: Ibid., 90–91.
10 ‘I made it a rule’: Maxwell Knight, Field Work for Young Naturalists (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1966), 173.
11 ‘Spiders have always’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 128.
12 ‘It will be apparent that’: Knight, Bird Gardening, 69.
13 ‘I have had jackdaws’: Maxwell Knight, Letters to a Young Naturalist (London: Collins, 1955), 56.
14 ‘a good hiding’: Knight, Animals and Ourselves, 20.
15 ‘the constant and usually ill-informed’: Ibid.
16 ‘that field naturalists must’: Knight, Be a Nature Detective, 2.
17 ‘His books emphasised’: John Cooper, interview with author, London, December 2015.
18 ‘if that doesn’t sound’: Maxwell Knight to Nancy, 24 November, 1958, BBC Written Archives.
19 ‘If only he could have’: Quoted in Masters, Man Who Was M, 163.
20 ‘human sex-maniacs’: Knight, How to Keep an Elephant, 61.
21 ‘I myself must plead’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 37.
22 ‘supposed to be people’: Knight, Bird Gardening, 1–2.
23 ‘she would suddenly appear’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 51.
24 ‘friendly leg-pulling’: Knight, Pets: Usual and Unusual, 13.
25 ‘Those of us’: Leonard Harrison Matthews in Knight, Pets and Their Problems, vii.
26 ‘I must issue a word’: Maxwell Knight, The Young Field Naturalist’s Guide (London: Richard Clay and Co., 1952), 39.