Delia Akeley

Delia Akeley

Delia Akeley born December 5, 1875 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Commonly known by her nickname Mickie was an American Explorer.

Delia Akeley had a life of adventure. With her second husband, Carl Akeley, the traveled to Africa in search of a special elephant specimens for the museum of a natural history in New York and she got save the Carl’s life in one of those dangerous hunts.

Back in the United States took with her a Monkey which he had to teach him how to behave, but this specimen of monkey learned very quickly that fascinated him and she didn’t abandon his passion for Africa and decided to travel alone to the Belgian Congo to explore this lands where this monkeys lives.

Delia Akeley died in 1970 at the age of 94, he is one of the first authors who write a anthropomorfic biography of the monkeys.