It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.