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Can I Interest You in a Giraffe Wine Safari?

It involves a jeep trek through the beachside hills of Los Angeles, lots of wine, and the (near) guarantee of a kiss from a celebrity giraffe named Stanley. At the “Malibu Wine Safari”, where the movie industry’s animals go to retire, here, you’ll find the kind of Hollywood-meets-hakuna-matata experience you never knew you needed… The safari grounds are…

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my! The Daredevil Petting Zoo

So think of the biggest and baddest predators in the animal kingdom, the most powerful carnivores in the food chain, and those are the guys you’ll be getting up close and personal with at the Lujan petting zoo in Argentina. Just outside Buenos Aires, a controversial zoo allows visitors past the iron bars that normally…

The Little French Girl Who Played with Wild Beasts

Her ‘brother’ was an elephant and she splashed around with crocodiles …  No, this is not the kid from the Jungle Book movie. This is Tippi Degré, the girl who grew up in the African wild and managed to not get eaten. The animals you see in these photos with Tippi were not in any way…

When Exotic Pets were the Accessory du Jour

  “The big picture is that we are intimately bound to animals and it is satisfying to take them in and tame them. Subconsciously, we are a mishmash. We don’t know who we are, and so to simplify things, we predicate our individuality on animals.” Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan, a cultural geographer at the University of…

THE JAW DROPPING PHOTOSTORY: Oh, don’t mind our pet Lion

You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head…

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film, 70 People Were.

Three years ago, I published an article about a photo story I’d found hiding away deep in the LIFE archives. I saw it spread like wildfire on the internet; jaw-dropping photographs of Tippi Hedren and her family living with full-grown lions, including her daughter, a young Melanie Griffith who is the little girl pictured lying in bed with a…
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