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Dian Fossey
American primatologist and conservationist (–)
Dian Fossey (dy-AN; January 16, – c.December 26, ) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from until her murder in [1] She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologistLouis Leakey.
Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at the Karisoke Research Center and prior career. It was adapted into a film of the same name.[2]
Fossey was a leading primatologist, and a member of the "Trimates", a group of female scientists recruited by Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments, along with Jane Goodall who studies chimpanzees, and Birutė Galdikas, who studies orangutans.[3][4]
Fossey spent 20 years in Rwanda, where she supported conservati