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Cooke began her career in television comedy production, and then moved into documentaries, later specialising in natural history.<ref name="iw-30oct2012">{{cite news |last1=Renninger |first1=Bryce J. |title=How Lucy Cooke Became The ‘Steven Spielberg of [Cute] Sloth Filmmaking’ and Helped Save Ugly Animals |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/how-lucy-cooke-became-the-steven-spielberg-of-cute-sloth-filmmaking-and-helped-save-ugly-animals-43815/ |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=[[IndieWire]] |date=30 October 2012}}</ref> Among others, she is credited as director and producer for ''[[Balderdash and Piffle]]'', director for ''[[Terry Jones' Medieval Lives|Medieval Lives]]'' and ''[[You Don't Know You're Born]]'', and presenter of ''[[Springwatch]]''.<ref name="amazon"/> |
Cooke began her career in television comedy production, and then moved into documentaries, later specialising in natural history.<ref name="iw-30oct2012">{{cite news |last1=Renninger |first1=Bryce J. |title=How Lucy Cooke Became The ‘Steven Spielberg of [Cute] Sloth Filmmaking’ and Helped Save Ugly Animals |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/how-lucy-cooke-became-the-steven-spielberg-of-cute-sloth-filmmaking-and-helped-save-ugly-animals-43815/ |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=[[IndieWire]] |date=30 October 2012}}</ref> Among others, she is credited as director and producer for ''[[Balderdash and Piffle]]'', director for ''[[Terry Jones' Medieval Lives|Medieval Lives]]'' and ''[[You Don't Know You're Born]]'', and presenter of ''[[Springwatch]]''.<ref name="amazon"/> |
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She has presented a range of natural history programmes for the BBC.<ref name="cbs-24dec2023">{{cite news |last1=Alfonsi |first1=Sharyn |title=Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, turn survival of the fittest upside down |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sloths-survival-worlds-slowest-mammal-60-minutes-transcript/ |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=[[60 Minutes]] |publisher=[[CBS]] |date=24 December 2023}}</ref> In 2015 she presented Nature's Boldest Thieves and Animals Unexpected.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC One - Nature's Boldest Thieves|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0513l8q|access-date=2020-07-13|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2016 she was a co-presenter on the four part series Ingenious Animals. She was a team captain on the BBC Quiz show Curious Creatures, which ran for two series from 2017 to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Two - Curious Creatures|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08w9yr7|access-date=2020-07-13|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2019, she presented the Animal Planet series Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved. |
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In 2020 she presented Inside the Bat Cave, which was broadcast on the BBC.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Inside the Bat Cave|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-press-and-journal-aberdeen-and-aberdeenshire/20201031/283704071980916|access-date=2021-11-05|via=PressReader |publisher=The Press and Journal}}</ref> |
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She is the author of ''The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife'',<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/04/22/604121405/who-cares-if-theyre-cute-this-zoologist-accepts-animals-on-their-own-terms|title=Who Cares If They're Cute? This Zoologist Accepts Animals On Their Own Terms|last1=Garcia-Navarro|first1=Lulu|website=National Public Radio|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref> which investigates popular misconceptions about animals, including [[Sloth|sloths]], [[Hyena|hyenas]], [[Penguin|penguins]], and [[Giant panda|pandas]].<ref name="nyt-25may2018">{{cite news |last1=Lescaze |first1=Zoë |title=What We Get Wrong About Animals |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/books/review/the-truth-about-animals-lucy-cooke.html |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 May 2018}}</ref> She had previously written three books about sloths: ''A Little Book of Sloth'', ''The Power of Sloth'', and ''Life in the Sloth Lane: Slow Down and Smell the Hibiscus'', and presented a [[TED Talk]] on the subject.<ref name="amazon"/><ref name="ted-sloth">{{cite web |last1=Cooke |first1=Lucy |title=Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_cooke_sloths_the_strange_life_of_the_world_s_slowest_mammal |website=[[TED (conference)|TED]] |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> |
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She is also the author of ''Bitch: A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution & the female animal'', published in 2022, which is also published as ''Bitch: On the female of the species''.<ref name="guard-11mar2022">{{cite news |last1=Glausiusz |first1=Josie |title=Bitch by Lucy Cooke review – a joyous debunking of gender stereotypes in nature |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/11/bitch-by-lucy-cooke-review-joyous-debunking-gender-stereotypes-nature-wild-darwin-female |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 March 2022}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |