"Speaking about how his passion for animals was born, Nutkins would bunk off school and then climb over the fence of . The keepers took him under their wing and allowed him to muck out the elephant enclosure."
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Terry Nutkins
(12 August 1946 – 6 September 2012) was an English naturalist and television presenter for the . The television series featured some popular segments of Nutkins with the female sea-lion Gemini that he reared from infancy. In 2010 he was honoured with a stone carving unveiled at the Royal Horticultural Show at .
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