Editing Richard Leakey (section)

===Earliest years===
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in [[Nairobi]].<ref name="nytobit">{{Cite news|last1=Lukpat|first1=Alyssa|last2=Chung|first2=Christine|date=2022-01-03|title=Richard Leakey, Kenyan Fossil Hunter and Conservationist, Dies at 77|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/world/africa/richard-leakey-dead.html|access-date=2022-01-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> As a small boy, Leakey lived in Nairobi with his parents: [[Louis Leakey]], curator of the Coryndon Museum, and [[Mary Leakey]], director of the Leakey excavations at [[Olduvai Gorge|Olduvai]], and his two brothers, Jonathan and [[Philip Leakey|Philip]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Richard E. Leakey Biography and Interview |website=www.achievement.org | publisher=[[Academy of Achievement]] | url=https://achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/}}</ref> The Leakey brothers had a very active childhood. All the boys had ponies and belonged to the Langata Pony Club.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kashyap |first1=Nitin |title=Kenyan Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey Passed Away at 77 Family |url=https://www.uptobrain.com/richard-leakey-death-reason-kenyan-paleoanthropologist-richard-leakey-passed-away-at-77-family/ |website=Up To Brain |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=3 January 2022}}</ref> Sometimes the whole club were guests at the Leakeys' for holidays and vacations. Leakey's parents founded the Dalmatian Club of East Africa and won a prize in 1957.<ref name="louis">{{cite web |title=Louis Leakey, Famed Paleoanthropolgist and Dalmatian Fancier |url=https://nationalpurebreddogday.com/louis-leakey-famed-paleoanthropolgist-and-dalmatian-fancier/#:~:text=The%20Leakeys%20founded%20the%20Dalmatian,leopards%2C%20snakes%20and%20other%20dangers. |website=National Purebred Dog Day |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=5 August 2017}}</ref> Dogs and many other pets shared the Leakey home.<ref name="louis" /> The Leakey boys participated in games conducted by both adults and children, in which they tried to imitate early humans, catching [[Pedetes|springhare]] and small antelope by hand on the [[Serengeti]]. They drove lions and [[jackal]]s from the kill to see if they could do it.<ref name=ancestralpassions18>{{cite book| first= Virginia| last= Morell| author-link= Virginia Morell| title= Ancestral Passions|year= 1995| chapter= 18: Richard Makes his Move}}</ref>