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Daktari n.

from daktari "medical doctor": the name of a television series about an animal doctor in Africa [< Swahili < English doctor; another Swahili word for doctor is dakta].

• "Under the heading of 'perceptions', William Beinart dwells on a particular moment in the depiction of domesticated 'wild' animals on television and film in the 1950s and '60s -- the decades of Born Free, Daktari and Animal Magic." Peregrine Horden, "Environments and Historical Change: The Linacre Lectures (book review)", English Historical Review, Apr. 2001.
• They Call Me Mama Daktari, by Anne Spoerry, 1997.
• Daktari Yohana: An American Pediatrician in East Africa, by John E. Hult, 1999.
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