She gained a place at St Andrews University in Scotland and was awarded a master's degree in Social Anthropology with a thesis on "Concepts of Love and Sexuality amongst the Bajuni People of Kiwaiyu Island, Kenya".
Friends made a pressure bandage and gave her electric shocks to denature the venom until help came the following morning with the Flying Doctors.
[6] When she returned to Africa from her studies in the UK she worked for the Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, mentored by conservationist Blythe Loutit.
Through the charity she has worked to support, protect and increase awareness of issues which threaten to erode African elephant populations and their habitats.
She has also appeared in wildlife programmes set in other countries and regions, such as India, Lapland and in the Arctic, where she filmed polar bears.
In 2006, she appeared alongside Nigel Marven in an episode of Prehistoric Park in which she travelled back 10,000 years to study sabre-toothed cats.
The same year she presented a three part BBC documentary, Unknown Africa,[12] on the state of wildlife in Comoros, Central African Republic and Angola.