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...covered with hooklike thorns, and wave it as a weapon; lions, Kortlandt knew, stay clear of thorns. To test his theory, he journeyed to the Kora National Reserve in Kenya and set large chunks of meat covered with thorn branches near a pride of twelve lions tamed by George Adamson of Born Free fame. The lions approached and batted tentatively at the branches, but refused to rip them away...
MURDER REVEALED. Joy Adamson, 69, naturalist and author of Born Free and other books, previously reported to have been slain by a lion at her camp in central Kenya. Police announced last week that she had not been mauled but stabbed to death; three former employees of hers are being held in the case...
Only one thing is certain," wrote Joy Adamson in her autobiography, published just last spring. "People get out of life exactly what they put into it." Joy Adamson embraced East Africa and shared her embrace with the world. During more than four decades in Kenya, she sketched and painted the region's luxuriant flowers and plants, captured portraits of its tribespeople in their fast-vanishing traditional costumes, and-most of all-made the great cats of Africa her friends. No lion on earth ever became more famous than Elsa, the cub that Adamson reared from infancy and then painstakingly...
...Austrian businessman. But two years later she went off on vacation to Kenya where, she recalled later, she "fell in love with this wonderful country," and stayed. A second marriage, to Botanist Peter Bally, foundered in 1944 on safari, when Joy met a British-Irish game warden named George Adamson. They were married later that same year...
Last week at the Shaba Game Reserve in central Kenya, as dusk fell on her camp, Joy Adamson indulged herself in her customary early evening habit: she set off, alone, on a stroll away from the camp. This time she did not return to hear the nightly news, as she always did. A search party was formed. Soon it found her lifeless body about 100 yards from the camp on a nearby trail. She had been badly mauled across the chest and an arm "by great claws," a friend reported, "no doubt a lion...