Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey was an American primatologist who devoted her life to studying and protecting mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda.
Her eighteen years of fieldwork produced groundbreaking research on gorilla behavior and social structure.
She was murdered in 1985, likely by poachers she had battled against.
Her memoir *Gorillas in the Mist* became a bestselling book and film.
- silverbackAdult male gorilla
- primatologistScholar of apes
- Jane GoodallBritish primatologist, Gombe pioneer
- RwandaEast-Central African nation
- gorillaLargest great ape
murdered · mist · Fossey · Louis · poaching · track · conservationist · endangered · mountain gorillas · great apes · wildlife trafficking · United States · field notes · anthropologist · Africa · troop · jungle · Rachel Carson
- biologistsbiologist, geneticist, molecular biologist, microbiologist, biochemist
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- Biology HistoryDarwin, Mendel, evolution, natural selection, cell theory
- animal scientistszoologist, ethologist, marine biologist, ornithologist, wildlife biologist
- naturalistsCharles Darwin, naturalist, field researcher, botanist, Carl Linnaeus
- Biologistmarine biologist, zoologist, botanist, ecologist, microbiologist
conservation stance
Dian Fosseypoacher
Unlawful wildlife taker
trophy hunter · big game hunter · Ernest Hemingway · Theodore Roosevelt · fur trapper