 When he was 15, he also owned young spectacled caiman.Nigel studied botany at the University of Bristol until the age of 22 when he left to begin his career at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol.Over the following years, Nigel worked firstly as a wildlife documentary researcher for such programmes as "The First Eden" and "My Family and Other Animals", then went on to produce such series as "Realms of the Russian Bear".