Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature

Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and NatureBy telling this story, Iain McCalman illuminates much about human animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality. He reinstates a twentieth century story of a dedicated amateur primatologist and her adopted Vervet monkey. On an East African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty year old American woman, captured a baby female monkey. Delia's loneliness in an isolating patriarchal world, and her long frustrated desire to adopt a