![]() “Today Bijou still struts imperiously indoors but doesn’t go outside much anymore.” (p. In an encounter with a “full grown nyala bull”, in which David could only see in the blur the attacker “ramming its long horns down on her,” he would discover, after taking Bijou into his arms, that instead of a feared bloody wound she had, in effect, “fainted”… all “six inches of her”. At Francoise’s insistence she only drinks bottled water.” (” ‘still or sparkling?’ the rangers mock when getting her a drink.”) (p. ![]() ![]() 136) “ She prefers carpet to grass, and will not – or cannot sleep on the floor. She had the choice food, even real steak, and slept on the bed between us…” (p. Bijou enjoyed a privileged life beyond anything Max or Penny ever could hope to aspire to. 99) Bijou, meaning “jewel in French… the obligatory accoutrement of almost an entire nation of French women. “ Francoise’s little Maltese poodle” … “snow-white…fluffy and soft”. 22) “ Francoise started converting the spare bedroom, right next to ours, into an elephant nursery.” (p. 8) She spoke with “her entrancing French lilt”. 251)įiancée, she later became the wife of Lawrence Anthony. 25) These were “among my favourite animals …the honey badger or ratel … ferocious little warriors…” (p. Mkhulu, his Zulu name meant “grandfather but not in the limited Western sense”…as “Zulus venerate maturity” this was definitely seen “as a compliment”. ![]() ![]() Lawrence Anthony: aka The Elephant Whisperer ![]()
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