[1] Piper's fascination by animals began at a young age through early encounters with a violet ground beetle and the caterpillar of an elephant hawk moth.
Piper has travelled widely in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia, searching for interesting and elusive beasts.
His current projects include authoring additional books exploring insects as a source of novel pharmaceuticals and biomaterials [6][7] and planning further expeditions.
[citation needed] Piper is enthusiastic to share his fascination for the incredible living things that surround us with anyone who will listen.
Piper has also featured as a presenter/on-screen expert on the CBBC series, Wild (live and recorded segments), the Sky 1 series, Extreme Fears, Extreme Cures where he helped ten arachnophobes overcome their fear and I have recently done some filming as an on-screen expert for a World's Weirdest Events.