Dian Fossey
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Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the moun
Fossey in 1968
Gorilla mother with infant in Virunga National Park in the Congo
Fossey established her research camp in the foothills of Mount Bisoke.
Fossey in 1981, while working and lecturing in the United States
The Trimates
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The Trimates is the collective name that anthropologist Louis Leakey gave to three women he selected to study primates in their natural environments. Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees; Dian Fossey stud
Dian Fossey
…Karisoke Research Center and her prior career. It is one of the sources for a 1988 film of the same name. Fossey was a leading primatologist and one of The Trimates, a group of female scientists recruited by Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments. Her counterparts Jane Goodall and Birutė Galdikas…
The Leakey Foundation produced a commemorative poster for a panel presentation by The Trimates at Caltech on May 2, 1981.
Jane Goodall in 2015
Biruté Galdikas in 2011