Jonathan Scott (zoologist)

Jonathan Scott was brought up on a farm in Berkshire, England and educated at Christ's Hospital School and Queen's University, Belfast.

Jonathan and his wife Angela, who is also an award winning wildlife photographer, have a permanent base at Governor's Camp in the Maasai Mara National Game Reserve in southwest Kenya.

He married Angela Bellamy on 26 March 1992 in a ceremony conducted on the top of the 300-meter Siria Escarpment overlooking Marsh Lion territory in the Maasai Mara.

Jonathan and Angela have written and illustrated 35 books including 8 titles in Collin's award winning children's education series Big Cat.

Jonathan and Angela wrote and illustrated three books to accompany the series: Big Cat Diary: Lion, Leopard and Cheetah.

They are Ambassadors for the Kenya Wildlife Trust's Mara Predator Conservation Programme Jonathan and Angela have a son, David, and a daughter, Alia, and grandson Michael.

Scarface is part of a group of male lions known as the 4 Musketeers who took over the Marsh Pride in 2011 and then deserted the area for Paradise Plains.

[a] Jonathan and Angela published four children's books with Cambridge University Press beginning in January 2016: Scarface: The Real Lion King, The Great Migration, "Tigers of Ranthambore", and "Honey and Toto: The Story of a Cheetah Family".

[3] Jonathan and Angela's latest TV series Big Cat Tales first aired on Animal Planet in October 2018 in the US and on Sky in the UK in March 2019.

The five-part series focuses on the Maasai Mara's iconic big cats and is co-hosted with Jackson ole Looseyia.