Whether she was shooting visiting snakes in the family’s laundry sink or solo-piloting a motorboat at age ten through a river full of angry hippos, Keena grew up with a sharp awareness of the intricate ways that danger and beauty coexist in the natural world and a deep love for the wild African landscape she called home.īut once a year, she and her family had to make a return trip to America, where for several months she had to hone her survival skills in a much more treacherous environment-the social hierarchy of a ritzy Philadelphia private school. Raised by primatologist parents, she and her sister spent most of their time in a rustic island camp in a national wildlife preserve in Botswana, tracking baboons through the bush even as even as they themselves were tracked by lions, treed by buffalo, or chased by elephants. Years before anyone had heard of the movie Mean Girls, it was real life for Keena Roberts.
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