David Bainbridge

David Bainbridge was born breech into the world on 13 October 1968. He studied zoology and veterinary medicine at Cambridge University. After a brief sojourn in veterinary practice, he obtained a doctorate at the Institute of Zoology in London for work on early pregnancy in deer, before being let loose on the interactions between human babies and their mothers at Oxford University. He now lectures in comparative anatomy and physiology at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He lives in north Hertfordshire with his wife, daughter and supernumerary cats.