Category:Saba Douglas-Hamilton

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Saba Douglas-Hamilton was born in Kenya on June 7, 1970. Her name means "seven" in the local Kiswahili language, and was given to her because she was born at 7 p.m. on a Sunday, the seventh day of the week, on the seventh day of the month, and she was also the seventh grandchild in the family. She is the daughter of zoologist, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, and a great-granddaughter of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton.

Saba spent her early childhood in Kenya, and was then educated in the United Kingdom, at the United World College of the Atlantic and the University of St Andrews, from which she graduated in 1993.

Since 2000, Saba has appeared in a number of wildlife documentaries produced by the BBC and others. Many of these have been set in Africa and have featured elephants an animal with which she became very familiar during her childhood. Since 2002, she has been co-presenter of the Big Cat Diary series, with Jonathan Scott and Simon King. She has also appeared in wildlife programmes set in other countries, such as India, Lapland and in the Arctic, where she filmed polar bears. Since 2004, Saba has presented a number of short pieces featuring vacation destinations in the BBC Holiday series. In 2006, she appeared alongside Nigel Marven in one episode of Prehistoric Park in which she travelled back 10,000 years to study sabre-toothed cats.