Who is Gary Richmond?
An author.
who wrote what?
A View from the Zoo.
which is about what?
How a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
What does a baby giraffe need to learn in the wild?
Get up as quickly as possible.
why?
To stay with its group.
who teaches them this lesson?
The mother.
What does she do when the baby is forst born?
Lowers her head long enough to take a quick look.
Is the baby born small?
No.
how big?
Ten feet high.
Once the mother looks at the baby, what does she do next?
She puts herself directly over her child.
and then?
Kicks her baby.
why?
She wants it to remember how it got up.
does it learn right away?
No.
what happens when it doesnt learn?
The process is repeated again and again.
who is the giraffes struggle compared to?
Michelangelo,
any other  men?
Vincent van Gogh.
Did these men seem to have anything in common?
Yes.
what is one?
Sometime in their life have a dream of something.
and what happens to them?
They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
what happens at the end?
They've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."