Only Bitten Once
With most of her 10 years of spending time with an assortment of animals, you would think that Tippi would have an array of scars and stories of dangerous encounters. But amazingly, Tippi only had one biting encounter in all her time in Africa, and it was from an unexpected animal. Her first and only bite came from a meerkat. It is ironic because the meerkat is one of the smallest animals that she ever encountered, but also because Tippi’s middle name Okanti, actually means meerkat.