Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris is a member of SIRC's panel of advisors. A world-renowned zoologist, author and painter, Dr Morris was born in Wiltshire in 1928 and educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities.

Desmond Morris – Career
Zoological research worker. University of Oxford 1954-56
Head of Granada TV and Film Unit at Zoological Society of London 1956-59
Curator of Mammals at Zoological Society of London 1959-67
Director Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1967-68
Privately engaged in writing books, 1968-73
Research Fellow Wolfson College Oxford 1973-81
Privately engaged in writing books and making television programmes 1981-1998.
Hon. D.Sc. Reading University, 1998.
Desmond Morris – TV Series
Zootime (weekly, 1956-67)
Life (fortnightly, 1965-67)
The Human Race (1982)
The Animals Roadshow (1987-89)
The Animal Contract (1989)
Animal Country (1991-96)
The Human Animal (1994)
The Human Sexes (1997)

Desmond Morris – Books
The Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-spined Stickleback (1958)
The Story of Congo (1958)
Curious Creatures (1961)
The Biology of Art (1962)
Apes and Monkeys (1964)
The Big Cats (1965)
The Mammals, a Guide to the Living Species (1965)
Men and Snakes (with Ramona Morris, 1965)
Men and Apes (with Ramona Morris, 1966)
Men and Pandas (with Ramona Morris, 1966)
Zootime (1966)
Primate Ethology (ed, 1967)
The Naked Ape (1967)
The Human Zoo (1969)
Patterns of Reproductive Behaviour (1970)
Intimate Behaviour (1971)
Manwatching: a Field-guide to Human Behaviour (1977)
Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution with Peter Collett, Peter Marsh and Marie O'Shaughnessy, 1979)
Animal Days (autobiography, 1979)
The Soccer Tribe (1981)
Inrock (fiction, 1983)
The Book of Ages (1983)
The Art of Ancient Cyprus (1985)
Bodywatching, a Field-guide to the Human Species (1985)
The Illustrated Naked Ape (1986)
Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour (1986)
Dogwatching (1986)
The Secret Surrealist (1987)
Catlore (1987)
The Animals Roadshow (1988)
Horsewatching (1988)
The Animal Contract (1990)
Animalwatching (1990)
Babywatching (1991)
Christmas Watching (1992)
The World of Animals (1993)
The Naked Ape Trilogy (1994)
The Human Animal (1994)
Illustrated Catwatching (1994)
Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures (1994)
Illustrated Babywatching (1995)
Illustrated DogWatching (1996)
Christmas Traditions (1996)
Desmond Morris, a Surrealist World (1997)
Catworld, a Feline Encyclopedia (1997)
The Human Sexes: a Natural History of Man and Woman (1997)
Illustrated HorseWatching (1998)
Cat Breeds of the World: A Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia (1999)
Body Guards; Protective Amulets and Charms (1999)
Dogs: The Ultimate Dictionary of Over 1000 Dog Breeds (2001)
Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language (2002)
The Nature of Happiness (2004)
The Naked Woman (2005)
Watching: Encounters with Humans and Other Animals (2006)
Fantastic Cats (2006)
For out-of-print books by Desmond Morris, check the Amazon list.

Desmond Morris – Solo exhibitions (paintings)
Swindon Art Centre 1948
London Gallery 1950
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1952
Stooshnoff Fine Art, London 1974
Quadrangle Gallery, Oxford 1976
Wolfson College, Oxford 1976
Lasson Gallery, London 1976
Public Art Gallery, Swindon 1977
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam 1978
Mayor Gallery, London 1987
Shippee Gallery, New York 1988
Keats Gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute 1988
Mayor Gallery, London 1989
Mayor Gallery, London 1991
Galerie Michele Heyraud, Paris 1991
Public Art Gallery, Swindon 1993
Mayor Gallery, London 1994
Public Art Galleries, Stoke and Nottingham 1996
Mayor Gallery, London 1997
Charleston Gallery, Sussex 1997
Public Art Gallery, Buxton 1997
Clayton Gallery, Newcastle 1998
Keitelman Gallery, Brussels 1998
Rossaert Gallery, Antwerp 1998
Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam 1999

Desmond Morris has been a highly valued advisor and contributor to the Social Issues Research Centre for many years, and is centrally involved, with the other members of our Advisory Panel, in guiding the work of SIRC.