Word: jamshedpur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jamshedpur, India...
Durrell became interested in animals soon after he was born in Jamshedpur, India, where he demanded a daily trip to a small zoo. The family later moved to England and after that to the Greek island of Corfu, where young Durrell began stuffing matchboxes with spiders, scorpions and snakes. He is fond of saying that his only formal education took place as a student keeper at London Zoo's Whipsnade Park, which he left at 21 with a small inheritance to begin a collecting career that has taken him to the wilds of six continents...