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
Gorillas in the Mist
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Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based on a book of
Dian Fossey
…death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at the 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…
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