List of expeditions by Gerald Durrell

| Mamfe, British Cameroons (now Cameroon)

| Independent animal collecting mission for British zoos

| The Overloaded Ark

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| Angwantibo, giant otter shrew

| Mamfe and Bafut, British Cameroons (now Cameroon)

| Independent animal collecting mission for British zoos

| The Bafut Beagles

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| Galago, hairy frog, African golden cat, flying mouse

| British Guiana (now Guyana)

| Independent animal collecting mission for British zoos

| Three Singles to Adventure

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| Giant otter, poison arrow frogs, Surinam toad, capybara, Brazilian porcupine, curassow

| Argentina and Paraguay

| Partially sponsored animal collecting mission

| The Drunken Forest

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| Burrowing owl, hornero, anaconda, rhea, giant anteater

| Bafut, British Cameroons (now Cameroon)

| Animal collecting mission for his own to-be zoo

| A Zoo in My Luggage

| To Bafut With Beagles

| Patas, galago, grey-necked rockfowl

| Patagonia, Argentina

| Animal collecting mission for his own Jersey Zoo

| The Whispering Land

| Look (Argentinian Expedition)

| South American fur seal, Patagonian hare, vampire bat, Magellanic penguin

| Malaysia, and Australia and New Zealand

| Shooting of the BBC Nature series Two in the Bush

| Two in the Bush

| Two in the Bush

| kākāpō, kākā, kea, takahē, tuatara, Sumatran rhinoceros, Leadbeater's possum

| Sierra Leone

| Animal collecting mission for Jersey Zoo to be made into a TV series by BBC

| Section of Catch Me a Colobus

| Catch Me a Colobus

| Colobus, African leopard, red river hog, potto

| Mexico

| Animal collecting mission for Jersey Zoo

| Section of Catch Me a Colobus

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| Volcano rabbit, thick-billed parrot

| Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia

| Conservation fact-finding mission, with possible material for book never written

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| Great Barrier Reef species

| Mauritius and other Mascarene Islands

| Two back-to-back conservation missions and animal collecting expeditions for local breeding and the Jersey Zoo

| Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons

| The Mauritius Conservation Mission, The Round Island Project

| Pink pigeon, Rodrigues fruit bat, Round Island boa, Telfair's skink, Gunther's gecko, Mauritius kestrel

| Assam, India and Bhutan

| Conservation mission and filming for an episode in a BBC series

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| "Animals Are My Life" episode in The World About Us series

| Pigmy hog

| Mauritius and other Mascarene Islands and Madagascar

| Conservation mission and animal collecting expedition for local breeding and Jersey Zoo to be filmed for a BBC TV series about the Trust's role in other countries

| Ark on the Move

| Ark on the Move

| Pink pigeon, Rodrigues fruit bat, Round Island boa, Telfair's skink, Gunther's gecko, Mauritius kestrel, indri, Madagascan boa

| Soviet Union

| Shooting of the Channel 4 TV series Durrell in Russia

| Durrell in Russia

| Durrell in Russia

| Przewalski's horse, saiga, cranes, Russian desman

| Belize

| As part of Programme for Belize — a conservation project which aimed to conserve 250,000 acres (1000 km²) of tropical rain forest

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| Belizean rain forest species

| Madagascar

| Conservation mission and animal collecting expedition for local breeding and Jersey Zoo

| The Aye-Aye and I

| To the Island of Aye-Aye

| Aye-aye, indri, ring-tailed lemur, Alaotran lemur, tenrec