The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
@ Fermilab's Ramsey Auditorium
Pine St, Batavia, IL 60510
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 8PM - 10PM
Join us for a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, followed by Q&A with Giraffologist Anne Innis Dagg and the film’s director, Alison Reid.
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Diane Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, in fact, before anyone, man or woman had made such a trip, 23-year-old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become the first person in the world to study animal behavior in the wild. When she returned home a year later armed with ground-breaking research, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved much harder to overcome.
In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, an older (now 85), wiser Anne takes us on her first expedition back to Africa to retrace where her trail-blazing journey began more than half a century ago Anne offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today.
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