In total, the family lived Degree in the Kalahari desert for seven years, on the border between the states of Namibia, West Africa and Botswana. Sylvia and Alan degrada shot many documentaries about animals and released several albums on the African fauna. When Tippy was born, the leadership of the West African national park for security reasons the girls demanded that the family left the sanctuary Degree.
Degree moved to the reserve in Botswana. There also were not thrilled to see that the child will grow up among the wild animals were allowed to live in the park.
Most of Namibia - it is very dry savanna and desert, all forests are not humid and tropical, and dry. With a relatively warm climate in these places (in contrast to the rest of Africa) are not so many parasites and other microorganisms that cause various dangerous diseases. Therefore, degrada there and settled.
Tippy parents in search of new photos for days spent outdoors, and took his daughter everywhere with him. The little girl was studying Pitfalls in human nature: snakes, scorpions, wild cats, who need to look directly into his eyes, never turn your back on them and not run away from them. "It just sounds so difficult - my mother says the girl - but is actually much harder to teach a child pedestrian rules."
Fellow in children's games and friends for Tippi from infancy were wild beasts, including the old elephant Abu, leopards, crocodiles, lions, giraffes, a huge bull frogs, and even chameleons, and many, many other animals.
