[9] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a series of books published by Foyles, including Unusual Pets (1959),[10] Cavies (1961),[11] and Mice and Rats (1961).
[9] Between 1984 and 2003, Keeling self-published a series of books on long-closed zoos, with titles such as Where the Lion Trod (1984),[12] Where the Crane Danced (1985),[13] Where the Zebu Grazed (1989),[14] Where the Elephant Walked (1991),[15] Where the Macaw Preened (1993),[16] Where the Penguin Plunged (1995).
[26] Keeling married Jill Annette Shaw, an English teacher at St George's School, Ascot,[4] on 24 August 1953.
[3] Jeremy, who co-founded Monkey World,[6] described the family as "dysfunctional" and how his parents' naivety caused an "ambivalent approach to safety" at Pan's Garden.
[27] He wrote how his father was "a working class man with delusions of grandeur", and that his fondness for books was matched only by his "absence of practical aptitude".