Betty Leslie-Melville (née McDonnell; March 7, 1927 – September 23, 2005) was an American born author and conservationist.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 7, 1927,[1] the daughter of a chiropractor,[2] Leslie-Melville attended Johns Hopkins University.
Other animal stories and fiction publications include: Elephant Have Right of Way (1973), There's a Rhino in the Rose Bed, Mother (1973), That Nairobi Affair (1975), Bagamoyo: Here I Leave My Heart (1983), A Falling Star: A True Story of Romance (1986), The Giraffe Lady (1997), Daisy Rothschild: The Giraffe That Lives with Me (children's book, 1987), and Walter Warthog (1989), a children's story about the tame warthog they named after their friend Walter Cronkite, the CBS News anchorman.
The books helped to raise more funds for the Giraffe Centre that they set up at Lang'ata, Kenya in 1983.
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