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.

凱文·理查森，全球聞名的“獅語者”，自學成纔的動物行為學傢，南非白獅王國的管理員。

認為自己像一頭獅子，隻要沒睡著，就會不停地動。

天生喜愛動物，傢裏常年收養著貓、金魚、蟾蜍、鸚鵡……甚至蟒蛇。不記得救過、養過多少隻鳥，兒時曾被小鎮居民叫做“鳥人”。

中學畢業時立誌成為獸醫，卻因在入學考試上迴答“與動物在一起時的激情比學習成績更重要”而沒被錄取。

大學畢業後去英格蘭工作，卻無比厭惡那裏的陰雨與壓抑，最終迴到南非，因為“我不是為瞭等待英格蘭的夏天而活，而是為瞭‘現在’”。

迴國後在獅子公園結識瞭名叫濤和拿破侖的兩隻幼獅，從此“三人”成為一生的兄弟。

工作時，麵對獅子從不攜帶棍棒、槍械或鐵鏈，頂多拿上一瓶鬍椒噴霧。

打破所有已知禁忌，與獅子同棲同遊、親吻嬉戲。

2008年因為在美國Youtube網站播放的一段視頻而一夜成名，相繼被美國全國廣播公司和哥倫比亞廣播公司專題報道，被贊為“獅語者”。

後擔綱製片，拍攝故事片《白獅》，希望藉此呼籲人們不要再獵殺獅子。