Michel Klein

Biography

Living in France and of Jewish origin , it took the maquis at the time of the Second world war.

Once this one finished, it sought an occupation which would enable him to put at the step its interior demons. Thus it specialized in the operations of animals of zoo. It was the first in France to use various surgical tools at the time of operations: surgical bubble to operate a deer (1974), general anesthesia of an elephant (1975), etc

Impassioned animals of all kinds, he sought by all the means to cure them and to save them death, going until adopting certain small without mother. It is him which proposes in 1970 with the Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas the tattooing of the dogs. It also took part in the creation of the Park of Thoiry, first African reserve in the world.

Doctor Klein included/understood very early the importance of médiatiser his combat and his first television goes back to 1958. He was present in various emissions in particular bound for youth, like " Wednesdays of Jeunesse" in 1973, on the ORTF. It created and animated, with his old friend stimulating the Dorothée, the emission " Ground, attention, danger" on TF1 in 1991. Diffused Sunday morning, the purpose of this emission was to sensitize the young televiewers with the problem of the disappearance of certain animal species by the fault of the Man. Its theory is based on the fact that by cause directly or indirectly by its action the disappearance of animal species, the Man will end up causing the proper disappearance of the mankind. He was also animalist chronicler in the emission Club Dorothée on TF1, presenting each Wednesday during ten years of the thousands of animals as various as varied, generally on line.

In addition to a long vice-presidency of the SPA now finished, he is also currently Honorary president of the School of Dogs guides for Aveugles and Partially-sighted persons of Paris.

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