Raised by the Zoo
eBook - ePub

Raised by the Zoo

My Life With Elephants and Other Animals

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Raised by the Zoo

My Life With Elephants and Other Animals

About this book

People have been enchanted by elephants for centuries. For Gerry Creighton, this fascination began at an early age. His father was a keeper at Dublin Zoo, and he instilled in Gerry a love and respect for animals. It wasn't long before Gerry followed in his footsteps, joining the zoo at 15, where he would spend the next 36 years.Joyful and life-affirming, Raised by the Zoo is the story of a life spent in service to elephants, and how by watching and listening to them – how they interact and care for each other, form relationships and teach the next generation – they can show us what it really means to be human.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter 1: The Elephant in the room
  6. Chapter 2: Beware of the leopard
  7. Saraswathi
  8. Chapter 3: Sundays at The Pet Farm
  9. Chapter 4: Schooldays
  10. Judy and Kirsty – 1
  11. Chapter 5: A job at the zoo
  12. Chapter 6: The awful 1980s
  13. Judy and Kirsty – 2
  14. Chapter 7: Adventures in hand-rearing
  15. Chapter 8: Transformation in the 1990s
  16. Bernhardine
  17. Chapter 9: Living with Lucy
  18. Chapter 10: Dublin’s elephants
  19. Asha
  20. Chapter 11: How to train an elephant
  21. Budi
  22. Chapter 12: Bringing the wall to China
  23. Upali
  24. Chapter 13: All in a day’s work
  25. Avani
  26. Chapter 14: On TV and in the wild
  27. Chapter 15: Tinder for tigers
  28. Zinda
  29. Chapter 16: Difficult days
  30. Kavi and Ashoka
  31. Chapter 17: Please don’t feed the animals
  32. Zulu, Jabali and Kamili
  33. Chapter 18: Animal hospital
  34. Chapter 19: My life as a boxer
  35. Tammi
  36. Chapter 20: Stepping down
  37. Sissy
  38. Chapter 21: The elephant man goes global
  39. Behati
  40. Chapter 22: Welfare begins at home
  41. Chapter 23: A manifesto for the future
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. Copyright
  44. About the Author
  45. About Gill Books
  46. Photo Section