Lucy Cooke

Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary producer, presenter and National Geographic explorer with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university. She is a passionate conservationist and champion of animal species that are often misunderstood. Her style is immersive, journalistic and unashamedly populist, mixing expert storytelling with a dash of humor to reach the widest possible audience. She began her presenting career hosting Freaks and Creeps for National Geographic, a show about strange species that get overlooked in favor of charismatic megafauna and has hosted numerous shows for the BBC. Lucy has a particular soft spot for sloths and founded the Sloth Appreciation Society to promote a greater understanding of their lazy lifestyle. She has since produced a number of iconic viral sloth videos, ‘Meet the Sloths’ an award-winning international series for Animal Planet, two best-selling books - A Little Book of Sloth and Life in the Sloth Lane - and an annual calendar featuring her sloth photographs. Cooke's latest book, The Truth About Animals was shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Society prize, the AAAS young adult science prize and has been hailed as a "deeply researched, sassily written history of the biggest misconceptions, mistakes and myths we've concocted about the animal kingdom, spread by figures from Aristotle to Walt Disney" by Nature

Conservation, animals, telling important stories with humour to reach the widest audience possible

The power of sloth