Jonathan Scott (zoologist)

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Jonathan Scott (1949- ) is a zoologist and wildlife photographer specializing in African wildlife. He spends much of his time in the Masai Mara National Game Reserve in south west Kenya and the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.

He and his wife Angie, who is also a wildlife photographer, have traveled the world to film wildlife for a number of projects, including segments for Wild Things (Paramount Productions) and the series Elephant Diaries, for which he worked with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Much of their work focuses on big cats, though they also enjoy spending time with the Masai herdsmen and their families who live in the Masai Mara.

Jonathan has been resident naturalist at various camps in Africa, narrated episodes of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, is co-presenter of the BBC/Animal Planet's Big Cat Diary and Big Cat Week (for which Angie acts as spotter and stills photographer), guest lectured on the Explorer (an Antarctic expedition cruise ship), wrote the text and took the photographs for his book The Leopard's Tale, and sells limited edition prints of his own pen and ink drawings.

He was named BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 1987 and received the Cherry Kearton Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1994; in 1996 he was awarded an African Travel and Tourism Association Award.

He and Angie have a son, David, and a daughter, Alia.