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A visit to a zoo in 1936 introduced three-year-old Canadian Anne Innis Dagg to her first giraffe. The meeting set her life path, taking her to South Africa where she broke new ground in animal research while studying giraffes in the wild.
After the zoo visit, Innis Dagg asked for a book about the creatures. When told there wasn’t one, she later told CBC Radio, “I thought, ‘Well, I’ll learn about giraffes and then I’ll write one’.”
A few years before Jane Goodall began her field studies on chimpanzees in Tanzania, and a decade before Dian Fossey started her research on mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Innis