There are many critically endangered animals that need your help. If you have any questions or would like to sponsor an animal or make a donation that will help protect some of these endangered animals and places, please email me at
[email protected].
You can follow updates for my upcoming shows and track my adventures at www.mireyamayor.com.
To help orphan chimpanzees, please visit the Jane Goodall Institute at www.janegoodall.org.
There are many people whose love, talent, and support made this book possible—far more than I have space to include here. Thank you all of you—you know who you are.
My beautiful daughters, Emma and Ava, whose mere presence could make me smile during the most frustrating of times, inspired me and motivated me to want to make the world a better place, even before they were born.
Thanks to the three most influential women and people in my life, my mother—my grandmother, and my aunt—whose patience, support, and unconditional love carried me through the best and most trying times: Mami, thank you for always encouraging me to follow my dreams and for enabling my animal habit.
