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ISBN: 1554586623 128037750X 9786610377503 0889205396 142376109X 6610377502 9781423761099 9780889204898 0889204896 9780889204638 0889204632 9780889205390 9781280377501 0889204632 9781554586622 Year: 2006 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
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In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author’s response to an “exotic” world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg’s narrative.
Zoologists --- Giraffe --- Animal scientists --- Biologists --- Giraffa camelopardalis --- Giraffes --- Giraffa --- Behavior --- Dagg, Anne Innis --- Travel --- Africa --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Dagg, Anne Innis, --- Dagg, A. I.,
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ISBN: 0520956966 9780520956964 9781299677395 1299677398 9780520266858 0520266854 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press
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The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century.Dale Peterson's text provides a natural and cultural history of the world's tallest and second-biggest land animals, describing in detail their biology and behavior. He offers a new perspective on the giraffes' place in our world, and argues for the stronger protection of these imposing yet endangered creatures and their elusive forest relatives, the okapis.Some 120 stunning photographs by award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann capture the grace and elegance of Giraffa camelopardalis. Both beautiful and informative, the images document giraffes' complex interactions with each other and their environment.
Giraffe. --- Giraffe --- Giraffa camelopardalis --- Giraffes --- Giraffa --- africa. --- all things animal. --- animal behavior. --- animal habitats. --- animal sanctuaries. --- animals and pets. --- animals. --- astonishing gentleness. --- beauty. --- biology. --- bushman. --- camelopards. --- complex interactions. --- conservation. --- ecology. --- elusive forest. --- endangered creatures. --- engaging. --- environmental. --- giraffes. --- lively. --- mammal zoology. --- natural world. --- nature. --- page turner. --- photographs. --- photography. --- science. --- social science. --- stunning photographs. --- wildlife photography. --- wildlife protection. --- zoology.
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