Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey

• Born: January 16, 1932, San Francisco, California, United States.
• Died: December 26, 1985, Rwanda.
• Fossey was an American zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist.
• She studied the endangered gorillas of the Rwandan mountain forest for two decades.
• Fossey, along with Jane Goodall and Birutė Galdikas, were the so-called Trimates, a group of three prominent researchers on primates (Fossey on gorillas; Goodall on chimpanzees; and Galdikas on orangutans)
• Fossey told her story in the book Gorillas in the Mist (1983), which was later adapted for a film (1988). 
• She was murdered in 1985, presumably by poachers at her Rwandan forest camp.
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