Lucy Cooke Explained

Lucy Cooke
Birth Place:East Sussex, England
Alma Mater:New College, Oxford (MS)
Nationality:British
Occupation:Zoologist, author, television producer and director
Organization:Sloth Appreciation Society

Lucy Cooke (born [1] [2]) is a British zoologist, author, television producer, director, and presenter.

Early life and education

Cooke was born and raised in East Sussex.[3] [4] She has an undergraduate masters[5] in zoology from New College, Oxford, where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins.[6] [7]

Career

Cooke began her career in television comedy production, and then moved into documentaries, later specialising in natural history.[8] Among others, she is credited as director and producer for Balderdash and Piffle, director for Medieval Lives and You Don't Know You're Born, and presenter of Springwatch.[6]

Cooke has presented a range of natural history programmes for the BBC.[9] In 2015 she presented Nature's Boldest Thieves and Animals Unexpected.[10] In 2016 she was a co-presenter on the four part series Ingenious Animals. She was a team captain on the BBC Quiz show Curious Creatures, which ran for two series from 2017 to 2018.[11] In 2019, she presented the Animal Planet series Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved.

In 2020, she presented Inside the Bat Cave, which was broadcast on the BBC.[12]

Cooke is the author of The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife,[13] which investigates popular misconceptions about animals, including sloths, hyenas, penguins, and pandas.[14] She had previously written three books about sloths: A Little Book of Sloth, The Power of Sloth, and Life in the Sloth Lane: Slow Down and Smell the Hibiscus, and presented a TED Talk on the subject.[6] [15] She also founded the Sloth Appreciation Society.[16] [17]

Cooke is also the author of Bitch: A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution & the female animal, published in 2022, which is also published as Bitch: On the female of the species.[18]

Personal life

Cooke was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, after which she adopted a healthier lifestyle. She moved back to her hometown of Hastings, East Sussex in 2019.

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: Piskorz . Juliana . Lucy Cooke: ‘I loved to drink, smoke and have a good time. Getting cancer at 45 marked an end to that’ . 14 January 2024 . . 22 April 2018.
  2. News: Cooke . Lucy . The Biggest Myths About Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom . 14 January 2024 . . 4 November 2023.
  3. Web site: Lucy Cooke - Wild UK . . 14 January 2024.
  4. News: Reece . Alex . My Coast: Lucy Cooke . 14 January 2024 . . 2 April 2019.
  5. Web site: The Oxford MA | New College.
  6. Web site: Lucy Cooke. Amazon . 6 October 2018.
  7. News: Boyd . Lou . Learn how Lucy Cooke is starting a gender revolution in the animal kingdom . 14 January 2024 . . 9 May 2022.
  8. News: Renninger . Bryce J. . How Lucy Cooke Became The ‘Steven Spielberg of [Cute] Sloth Filmmaking’ and Helped Save Ugly Animals ]. 14 January 2024 . . 30 October 2012.
  9. News: Alfonsi . Sharyn . Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, turn survival of the fittest upside down . 14 January 2024 . . . 24 December 2023.
  10. Web site: BBC One - Nature's Boldest Thieves. 2020-07-13. BBC. en-GB.
  11. Web site: BBC Two - Curious Creatures. 2020-07-13. BBC. en-GB.
  12. Web site: Inside the Bat Cave. 2021-11-05. PressReader . The Press and Journal.
  13. Web site: Who Cares If They're Cute? This Zoologist Accepts Animals On Their Own Terms. Garcia-Navarro. Lulu. National Public Radio. 6 October 2018.
  14. News: Lescaze . Zoë . What We Get Wrong About Animals . 14 January 2024 . . 25 May 2018.
  15. Web site: Cooke . Lucy . Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal . . 14 January 2024.
  16. News: Why we should all live like a sloth . 14 January 2024 . BBC.
  17. Web site: Sloth Appreciation Society . Slothville . 14 January 2024.
  18. News: Glausiusz . Josie . Bitch by Lucy Cooke review – a joyous debunking of gender stereotypes in nature . 14 January 2024 . . 11 March 2022.

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