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After a childhood spent on the plains of South Africa, Fisher Professor of Natural History Alfred W. Crompton still keeps a lion just a staircase away...
...these beasts are teaching aids, the best kind of illustrations for an expert on mammal anatomy. They are also convenient subjects to satisfy Crompton's curiosity about animals which began a long way from Cambridge...
...kids in South Africa, it was really a wonderful country to live in because you could spend so much time out in the open," Crompton says...
...Crompton's interest in animals began in the African outdoors and started him on the road to veterinary school before an interest in comparative anatomy drew him away...
...Crompton turned to academic biology. He left South Africa to pursue graduate studies in Cambridge, England before returning in 1956 to run a museum in Cape Town...