Shaba National Reserve resident white-headed vulture, martial eagle and yellow-billed oxpecker, the last of which is fairly common. The park was made famous by Joy Adamson and the lioness Elsa, subjects of the 1966 film "Born Free". In January 1980 Adamson was murdered in the reserve, where there is a monument to her. The film "Out of Africa" was shot in part within the reserve, as were various other TV shows and commercials that take advantage of the wildlife and dramatic scenery. In 2001, two thirds of the park was sealed off for four months while a CBS crew shot episodes of "",
Joy Adamson her grandmother. In her autobiography "The Searching Spirit", Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me". She grew up on an estate near Vienna, was educated in Vienna earning a music degree before studying sculpting and medicine. As a young adult, Adamson considered careers as a concert pianist, and in medicine. Joy Adamson married three times in the span of ten years. Her first marriage was to Viktor von Klarwill (aka Ziebel; 1902-1985). She went to Kenya in 1937 where she met and married in 1938 the botanist Peter