Compare and contrast Mark Carwardine to Douglas Adams in the nonfiction book, Last Chance to See?

Mark Carwardine is an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist who was working for the World Wildlife Fund. His role was to know what he was talking about. Douglas Adams is an award-winning writer of humorous science fiction adventures whose role was as an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise. Together, Carwardine and Adams traveled around the world in search of exotic, endangered species.