David Taylor

Who was David Taylor?

David Conrad Taylor, BVMS, FRCVS, FZS, was a British veterinary surgeon. He was the first veterinary surgeon to specialise in zoo and wildlife medicine. Taylor worked with zoo and wild animals from 1957, acting as a consultant on the treatment of some of the rarest species on Earth. He was world renowned as an expert in marine mammal medicine and from 1968 was the vet in charge of the first killer whale to be kept in the UK - Cuddles, at Flamingo Park, North Yorkshire.