Lockley, Ronald Mathias

Lockley, Ronald Mathias
▪ 2001

      Welsh naturalist (b. Nov. 8, 1903, Cardiff, Wales—d. April 12, 2000, Auckland, N.Z.), wrote about island life, seabirds, and marine mammals; founded bird observatories in Great Britain and New Zealand; and wrote the script for the Academy Award-winning documentary The Private Life of the Gannet (1934), but it was his rigorous scientific study of rabbits for the British Nature Conservancy in the 1950s, published as The Private Life of the Rabbit (1964), that brought him international recognition and inspired Richard Adams's best-selling novel Watership Down (1972).

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