Dian Fossey, January 16, 1932 –
December 27, 1985 was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of
gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the
mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous
anthropologist Louis Leakey. She was murdered in 1985; the case remains open. Called one of the foremost primatologists in the world while she was alive, Fossey,
along with Jane Good all and Birutė Galdikas, was part of the so-called
Leakey's Angels, a group of three prominent researchers on primates (Fossey on
gorillas; Good all on chimpanzees; and Galdikas on orangutans) sent by
archaeologist Louis Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments.
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