Long before she was married in 1926, Mary Jobe Akeley had led so many expeditions into the wilds of the Canadian northwest that they named a high peak of the Canadian Rockies after her: Mt. Jobe. Then, when her husband died only two years after they were married, leaving her in Africa, she undertook a study of the mountain gorilla; mapped much of Kenya, Tanganyika, and the Congo; and completed a photographic study of the Ugandan pink flamingo. Why not? She was there anyway.
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