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Delia Akeley and the monkey : a human-animal story of captivity, patriarchy and nature

McCalman, Iain2022
On an East-African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty-year-old American woman, captured a baby female monkey. Delia's loneliness in an isolating patriarchal world, and her long-frustrated desire to adopt a child, had motivated her to nurture the animal. She named the monkey JT Jr a...
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