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Pursuing a dream instilled by early David Attenborough television adventures, a young man from the industrial northwest of England is advised at school to become a veterinary surgeon as a first step towards a career working with wild animals in Africa.

His misgivings about the values and justification of domestic…

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Larry Patterson trained as a vet in the UK but never intended to work with dogs, cats or cows. His dream centred on African wildlife. He went to Uganda and it changed his life. He learned to fly, undertook animal censuses from the air, almost died in a car crash, almost got crushed by an under-sedated rhinocerous, was knocked over by a surprised lion, watched a leopard walk past ten feet away as he sat at a fire with Prince Harry, became a specialist at darting elephants, started the first private veterinary clinic in Botswana, ran a successful game capturing…

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