The Lion and the Giraffe: A Naturalist's Life in the Movie Business

Jack Couffer was born on Dec 7, 1924, in Upland, California. As a youth he became fascinated with natural history and raised hawks, owls, squirrels, and coyotes. During high school years, he worked as a student assistant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. On his 17th birthday, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Shortly thereafter, Jack's museum mentor, an expert on bats, was approached by the War Department to research a secret project that would use bats as carriers of miniatur...