Monica Bond and the Wild Nature Institute team are studying more than 3,500 wild Masai giraffes in an area over 25,000 sq. km in Tanzania. This is the BIGGEST study of giraffe survival and reproduction in the world.

Monica has been an animal lover for as long as she can remember. She became particularly interested in biology in high school, and discovered the world of wildlife science in college, after visiting a friend who was studying nesting of Peregrine Falcons in Great Smokey Mountains National Park. She loves to mix field research with writing and talking about the beauty and importance of wildlife and nature. She has lived and worked in Tanzania for 10 years.