Gerald Durrell meets James Herriot. In "Zoo Tails," Oliver Graham Jones recalled his time as the chief vet at London Zoo, and some of the extraordinary animals he met along the way.
One puff adder, one antelope, one crocodile -- This was the list of sick animals presented to Oliver Graham Jones on his first day as a new vet at London Zoo in 1951. And his time at the zoo didn't get any less strange or entertaining... There's the time he anaesthetized, and was then chased by, a gorilla; had to capture an angry polar bear in thick fog; performed a colostomy on a python; and fitted a raven in...