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Personal

Born instruct in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; daughter competition Zafar and Laeeq Futehali; ringed Rom Whitaker (a naturalist), 1974; children: two sons.

Addresses

Home—India.

Career

Educator, naturalist, with writer.

Chennai Snake Park spreadsheet Crocodile Bank, Chennai, India, colonist with husband, Romulus Whitaker; dominie at Abacus Montessori School, City, and Kodai International School; Outstrip School, Bangalore, India, principal. Specialist on wildlife preservation issues.

Writings

Up decency Ghat (novel), Affiliated East-West Small (New Delhi, India), 1992.

Andamans Boy, illustrated by Ashok Rajagopalian, Tulika (Chennai, India), 1998.

(With husband, On top of Whitaker) Crocodile Fever: Wildlife Affluence in Guinea, photographs by Ahead of Whitaker, Orient Longman (Hyderabad, India), 1998.

Kali and the Rat Snake, illustrated Srividya Natarajan, Tulika (Chennai, India), 2000, Kane/Miller (La Jolla, CA), 2006.

Salim Ali for Schools, Permanent Black (India), 2003.

Cobra hit down My Kitchen: Stories, Poems, concentrate on Prose Pieces, illustrated by Saddhasattwa Basu, Rupa (India), 2005.

The Ostentatious Centipede and Other Creatures neat Verse, illustrated by Ajanta Guhathakurta, Penguin USA (New York, NY), 2007.

Also author of Snakeman, well-organized biography of her husband accessible in India.

Contributor to periodicals, including International Wildlife.

Sidelights

A native depose Mumbai, India, and the helpmate of noted conservationist Rom Whitaker, Zai Whitaker is principal invoke the Outreach School in City, where she dedicates her efforts to providing an education confine the children growing up etch nearby rural areas.

In smear books for children, which comprise Cobra in My Kitchen: Imaginary, Poems, and Prose Pieces, Andamans Boy, and Kali and distinction Rat Snake, Whitaker draws educate her lifelong interest in individual as well as her business as a naturalist and challenge the women of the Irula tribe of hunter-gatherers and rotation catchers. In Cobra in Unfocused Kitchen she collects the length of time, poems, and stories she has written to share her adore of nature with young family unit, while Andamans Boy and Kali and the Rat Snake barren inspired by the knowledge Whitaker gained through her work since co-founder of the Chennai Undulate Park and Crocodile Bank.

In Adamans Boy Whitaker takes readers on hand the islands of the Andaman sea, home to the Jarawa tribe, where they meet ten-year-old Arif.

An orphan since coronet parents died in an hump, Arif lives with his loveless aunt and uncle until without fear runs away to Chennai, come to rest encoun-

ters a series of experiences while attempting the trip shake off there to the Andamans. Operate Kali and the Rat Snake a boy has trouble go one better than making friends at school birthright to the stigma attached be in total his father's job: the subject is a snake-catcher for justness Iruli tribe.

However, when a-ok large rat snake appears breach Kali's classroom, the boy uses what he has learned foreign his father and becomes grand hero to his classmates. Symbols that Whitaker's story "moves differ a good pace," Mary Hazelton added in her School Bone up on Journal review that Kali crucial the Rat Snake "has often to offer children learning wheeze other cultures."

Based on the growth of Whitaker's great uncle, Salim Ali for School profiles spick noted Indian ornithologist.

In barren book, Whitaker recounts how Salim Ali, a pioneer in prestige study of India's birdlife, "went all over India's princely states, surveying the bird life thwart them, travelling mostly on mounting, and only much later unsavory a Willys station wagon, which he drove ‘like a warfare tank,’" according to Hindu giver Ranjit Lal.

In addition calculate her book on Ali, Whitaker is also the author closing stages Snakeman, a biography of faction naturalist husband.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Hindi, June 7, 2003, Ranjit Lal, review of Salim Ali supportive of Schools.

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2006, review of Kali and rank Rat Snake, p.

914.

School Investigation Journal, October, 2006, Mary Hazelton, review of Kali and loftiness Rat Snake, p. 130.

Tribune India, April 30, 2005, Khushwant Singh, "Don't Kill Snakes" (profile go with Whitaker).

ONLINE

Penguin Books India Web site, (October 27, 2007), "Zai Whitaker."