About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The film showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, crouching down at their level, playing with them and, sometimes, even kissing them on the nose--all without ever being attacked or injured. The films' popularity skyrocketed and Richardson became an international sensation. In "Part of the Pride", Kevin Richardson tells the story of his life and work, how he grew from a young boy who cared for so many animals that he was called "The Bird Man of Orange Grove" to an adolescent who ran wild and, finally, to a man who is able to cross the divide between humans and predators. As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has broken every safety rule known to humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting common misconceptions that breaking an animal's spirit with sticks and chains is the best way to subdue them, he uses love, understanding and trust to develop personal bonds with them. His unique method of getting to know their individual personalities, what makes each of them angry, happy, upset, or irritated--just like a mother understands a child--has caused them to accept him like one of their own into their fold. Like anyone else who truly loves animals, Richardson allows their own stories to share center stage as he tells readers about Napoleon and Tau, the two male lions he calls his "brothers"; the amazing Meg, a lioness Richardson taught to swim; the fierce Tsavo who savagely attacked him; and the heartbreaking little hyena called Homer who didn't live to see his first birthday. Richardson also chronicles his work on the feature film "The White Lion" and has a lot to say about the state of lion farming and hunting in South Africa today. In "Part of the Pride", Richardson, with novelist Tony Park, delves into the mind of the big cats and their world to show readers a different way of understanding the dangerous big cats of Africa.

凯文·理查森，全球闻名的“狮语者”，自学成才的动物行为学家，南非白狮王国的管理员。

认为自己像一头狮子，只要没睡着，就会不停地动。

天生喜爱动物，家里常年收养着猫、金鱼、蟾蜍、鹦鹉……甚至蟒蛇。不记得救过、养过多少只鸟，儿时曾被小镇居民叫做“鸟人”。

中学毕业时立志成为兽医，却因在入学考试上回答“与动物在一起时的激情比学习成绩更重要”而没被录取。

大学毕业后去英格兰工作，却无比厌恶那里的阴雨与压抑，最终回到南非，因为“我不是为了等待英格兰的夏天而活，而是为了‘现在’”。

回国后在狮子公园结识了名叫涛和拿破仑的两只幼狮，从此“三人”成为一生的兄弟。

工作时，面对狮子从不携带棍棒、枪械或铁链，顶多拿上一瓶胡椒喷雾。

打破所有已知禁忌，与狮子同栖同游、亲吻嬉戏。

2008年因为在美国Youtube网站播放的一段视频而一夜成名，相继被美国全国广播公司和哥伦比亚广播公司专题报道，被赞为“狮语者”。

后担纲制片，拍摄故事片《白狮》，希望借此呼吁人们不要再猎杀狮子。