Tippi - Bridging the Gap to Africa
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Stumble ThisTippi Degré was born in the newly independent Namibia. At 10 months the toddler was exploring the Namibian bush and desert. For 10 years, Tippi wandered the bush bare footed, making friends with all sorts of animals: leopards, caracals, mongooses, baboons and snakes.
Her playground was the hills and the harsh desert tribe lands of southern Africa; as the family wandered the bush land, Tippi picked up all kinds of friends – like Abu, a five ton (28-year-old) elephant she calls “her brother”.
Her playground was the hills and the harsh desert tribe lands of southern Africa; as the family wandered the bush land, Tippi picked up all kinds of friends – like Abu, a five ton (28-year-old) elephant she calls “her brother”.
Gonna show some to my nephew, 12yrs old and he screams like a little girl when he sees a garden snake.
Wanna bet all the lions and cheetahs are in fact zoo/refuge animals with trainers. What a joke. You think a 8yr old wander in Africa wouldn't have been eaten by the pretty kitty. People will fall for anything...
I didn't see any claim that would have been something to "fall for" in Tippi's story. Her association with the animals is no less interesting because she was not the first human to associate with them (especially elephants, which can be working animals). If we had some kid here who wandered through a wild animal park, it would be worth noting. People make movies about kids who do all sorts of interesting things: play piano early (yet ultimately no better as adults than people who learned much later), love garbage trucks, repair vacuums, and, of course, lived in odd places. It may not be to her credit, or even her parents' credit that she had an interesting early life, but that doesn't make the story about her disingenuous.
IMO.