Reuben David (19 September 1912[1] – 24 March 1989) was a zoologist and the founder of the Kankaria Zoo in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
He was invited by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in 1951 to create a zoo in the city.
[6] He also served as an advisor for Sundervan in Ahmedabad and Indroda Park in Gandhinagar.
[4] He co-authored The Asiatic Lion (1991) with M. A. Rashid who was a retired chief conservator of forests under Government of Gujarat.
[4] Australian anthropologist Colin Groves discovered the prehistoric warthog in 1981 and named the Central Asian boar after him, Sus scrofa davidi.