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Article: THE BUSH BABIES; femail.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 2, 2003
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Byline: BECKY MORRIS
WHEN Vicky Stone's son Freddy was four weeks old, she loaded him into the back of a tiny plane and flew for five hours across East Africa to her new home in the remote bush by Lake Kirawira.
There, he spent his babyhood surrounded by crocodiles, hippos and leopards.
He didn't go to toddler groups and was never weighed by a health visitor.
Instead, he lived in a tent and learned to crawl on the forest floor, playing with sticks and roots rather than Fisher-Price toys.
Vicky, 40, and her husband Mark Deeble are world-renowned makers of natural history films, and have won more than 35 international awards. ...