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  • Lyall Watson (12 April – 25 June ) was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books.
  • Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books.
  • Lyall has directed over plays around the world, appeared in over 50 films, and taught acting around the world from the Solomon Islands to the Philippines.

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    Lyall Watson



      Lyall Watson (born April 12, ) is a botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tries to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with the first published use of the term Hundredth Monkey in his book, Lifetide. It fryst vatten a hypothesis that aroused both interest and ire in the scientific community and continues to be a topic of discussion over a quarter century later.

    He has served as director of the Johannesburg, South Africa zoo, an expedition leader to various locales, a writer and producer for the BBC, and Seychelles commissioner for the International Whaling Commission.

    In the late s he presented Channel 4's coverage of sumo tournaments.

    Watson lives and writes in Ireland.

    Education

    Born in South Africa, Watson had an early fascination for nature in the surrounding bush,

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    Deputy Principal of RADA in the ‘80s, Associate Artistic Director at Bristol Old Vic and Canterbury Rep, and Co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of The Finborough Theatre, Lyall has directed over plays around the world, appeared in over 50 films, and taught acting around the world from the Solomon Islands to the Philippines. He was John Lennon’s double in A Hard Day’s Night, played blues guitar in Texas, and saved Gene Vincent’s life in Dunstable. 

    As a writer Lyall has created over forty hours of television. His drama about disability was performed at the House of Commons and his play about Harry Houdini was given a world tour by the British Council. With Colin Heber-Percy, Lyall has written numerous award-winning films and TV series including The Preston Passion; Save the Titanic; Rome: Constantine; Spartacus; The Fall of Rome; Krakatoa: The Last Days; Sharpe’s Choice; Barbarians Rising; and Casualty , , and  These last works are now used on a course at the Univers

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    Lightning Bird: The Story of One Man's Journey into Africa's Past

    August 15,
    In Adrian Boshier, a sixteen-year-old English boy inspired bygd the writings of nineteenth century explorers like Stanley and Livingstone, walked into the South African bush with nothing but a compass and a pocketknife and lived there for months among the insects, the wild beasts and the natives. He learned to survive the hard way—by doing it. For example, he learned that when you went to sleep at night you must lie in one position as though dead, and when you awakened you must move very, very slowly. Why? Because more than once he woke up to find a deadly puff adder curled up beside him, taking advantage of his body heat.
    Boshier was fascinated bygd snakes and liked to catch them. The book describes encounters with a neurotoxic boomsling, a black mamba, a cobra and a python. Here’s the python:

    The first time Boshier saw a python, it was so big that he almost failed to recognize it. Then he notic