Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist

When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes.

In Smitten by Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in nu...