Dian Fossey

American zoologist Dian Fossey (born January 16, 1932, San Francisco, California, born December 26, 1985) became the world's leading authority of the mountain gorilla.

Fossey received training and became occupational therapist at San Jose State University and graduated in 1954. She has worked at a pediatric hospital in Louisville, Kentucky for several years. In 1963, she went to eastern Africa where she met Luis Niki, an anthropologist, and saw the mountain gorilla for the first time. She returned to the United States after the trip, but in 1966, the niche persuaded her to return to Africa for a long time to study mountain gorillas in natural habitats. For this purpose, she founded the Karisok Institute in 1967 and started living like a hermit in the Virunga mountains of Rwanda, one of the last fortress of the endangered mountain gorilla It was. With patient effort, Fossey could observe the animals and adapt it to their existence The data she gathered has greatly expanded the region's understanding of gorilla customs, communication and social structure.

Fossey left Africa in 1970 and received a PhD in Cambridge University in the UK. In 1974, she completed her thesis "Mountain Gorilla's Behavior" and got a zoological degree. She returned to Rwanda with student volunteers and they were able to do a broader range of research. As one of her favorite gorillas, Digit, was killed, Fossey caused international media coverage in the fight against poachers in 1978.

In 1980, Fuchs returned to the United States to accept associate professors at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. At the same time, Fossey completed Gorillas in Mist (1983; Film 1988). After returning to Rwanda, Fuxi resumed her campaign against poachers and took increasingly intense measures to protect the violet gorilla. On December 26, 1985, her corpses were found near her campsite. Although no attackers were found, she was widely suspected to have been murdered by a missing poacher for a long time.

Today, Dian Fossey's work is continued through the Dian Fossey Gorilla Foundation International (formerly known as the Digital Fund), and after the first facility of Karisoke in Rwanda was destroyed during Rwanda's civil war, it moved to Moussans did. The Foundation recently brought the first Rwandan coach. According to the website of Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, he says: Parks and other endangered species in the habitat of gorillas. "

Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco, California on January 16, 1932. During his tenure as occupational therapist, Fossey became interested in primates during his travel to Africa in 1963. She studied gorillas in danger of extinction of the Rwandan forest for 20 years before unresolved homicide occurred in Rwanda Volcano National Park in 1985. Fossey talks about her story in "The Gorilla in the Mist" (1983) which was adapted to a movie starring "Sigourney Weaver". Primatologist and naturalist Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco, California on January 16, 1932, and grew up from her mother and stepfather. She began to be familiar with animals from a young age, she was an avid riding rider and an aspiring veterinarian. However, after participating in veterinary research at the University of California, Davis, she moved to San Jose State University and changed his major in occupational therapy.

Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco, California in 1932. As her parents divorced when she was young, Dian grew up from her mother and stepfather. In all respects, she is an excellent student and she is very interested in very young animals. At the age of 6, she began riding classes and received a letter from a high school riding team. When Dian was enrolled in the university course of Marin Junior College, she was advised by stepfather, wealthy businessman and chose to concentrate on business. She worked at school and when I was 19, after my college summer vacation, I went to work at a farm in Montana. In the meadow, she fell in love with the animal and deepened her attachment to the animal, but she was obliged to leave early as she developed varicella.