Lloyd Spencer Davis is an award-winning author and filmmaker and Stuart Professor of Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He a world authority on penguins, with academic honours such as the Fulbright Fellowship, the Anzac Fellowship and a Prince and Princess of Wales Science Award. His book Penguin: a season in the life of the Adelie penguin won the PEN Best First Book Award for Nonfiction and The Plight of the Penguin won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. His book Looking for Darwin won the CLL Writer's Award and was Runner Up as the New Zealand Travel Book of the Year. His documentary Meet the Real Penguins won twelve major international awards.
