Remembering Desmond Morris (and, the only time anyone has a good story about obtaining copyright permission for reusing an image in a publication)

Desmond Morris was a zoologist, surrealist painter, and his website is the best of what the internet looked like in the late 1990s. I was a teenager who purchased weird books from charity shops and remember reading The Naked Ape, his somewhat creative interpretation of human behaviour through the lens of primatology, which I'm sure is not the weirdest second hand book I read, but it was certainly…