Diane Fosey paid ultimate price to get what she wanted from the Gorillas and protection of them from DRC rebels. Great tribute to her is to read her work. ( )

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Dian Fossey



Dian Fossey in November 1984
Born January 16, 1932
San Francisco, California, U.S.
It's Not Goodbye - Sweet November MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6lsZoWcFE

Died December 26, 1985 (aged 53)
Volcanoes National Park,Rwanda
Murder

Citizenship United States
Fields Ethology, primatology

Institutions Karisoke Research Center,Cornell University

Alma mater
College of Marin, (1949-1950)San Jose State University (B.A.,Occupational therapy, 1954)
Darwin College, Cambridge(Ph.D., Zoology, 1974)

Known for Study and conservation of themountain gorilla

Influences Jane Goodall, Louis Leakey,George Schaller



After I saw the movie "Gorillas in the Mist," I had to read this book

Gorillas in the Mist (1988) Official Trailer - Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown Movie HD
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Gorillas in the Mist is Dian Fossey’s account of thirteen years spent learning mountain gorillas on the Virunga volcanic mountains.

Called one of the foremost primatologists while alive.
Although Fossey has been dead for over 25 years – she was killed in 1985, her ideas and contribution to conservation approaches still warrant recognition, if not application


Life and career

Fossey was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Kathryn "Kitty" (née Kidd), a fashion model, and George E. Fossey III, an insurance agent

Education
Educated at Lowell High School, following the guidance of her stepfather she enrolled in a business course at the College of Marin. However, spending her summer on a ranch in Montana at age 19 rekindled her love of animals, and she enrolled in a pre-veterinary course in biology at the University of California, Davis.
Interest in Africa


Fossey turned down an offer to join the Henrys on an African tour due to lack of finances, but in 1963 she borrowed $8,000 (one year's salary), took out her life savings and went on a seven-week visit to Africa.

In September 1963, she arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. While in Kenya she met actor William Holden, owner of Treetops Hotel, who introduced her to her safari guide, John Alexander. Alexander became her guide for the next seven weeks through Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rhodesia.

Rwandan president and one of the country's most wanted criminals for his creation of "death squads," which killed 800,000 in 1994, was captured by Belgian police while trying to flee Kenya on June 9, 2001.

Dian Fossey, Digit's death
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In loving memory Dian Fossey
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Dian Fossey gorilla’s
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For years the FBI was unable to catch its prime suspect, Zigiranyirazo, because of the dogmatic influences, but that all altered when he was detained in Belgium for combat wrongdoings.

There are really no easy solutions. Reading Gorillas in the Mist filled me with awe and respect for these amazing animals. Can you imagine a world without gorillas? I’ve never seen an actual gorilla, but I love knowing they exist somewhere. And the thought of them no longer existing makes me tremendously sad.

From the moment you open this captivating non-fiction book about the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Mountains, you crave to know more of these "gentle giants".

Though it would be easy Ms. Fossey to stray away from the gorillas to her own private life, Ms. Fossey stays totally attentive on her unselfish voyage to explain to the world that these gorillas are not beasts but "gentle Goliath's".

She gorgeously paints the picture of the gorillas' close-knit families and groups! Ms. Fossey also brilliantly fit in her own knowledges with the gorillas. This volume showed me that humans and gorillas can have relationships and can be "friends".


Intensely thorough and enunciated by Ms. Fossey and her studies and sympathy towards these superb Animals. This volume goes on to detail gorillas and their lives as well as the battles of deforestation and the combat to protect them. You get to know specific gorillas as well as Diane Fossey and her lifespan. I praise this and will recommend it especially to animal lovers.

Koko the Gorilla with in memory Robin Williams


This is for fun the lets dance


Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
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Footloose - Kenny Loggins
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Flash-dance - Final Dance / What A Feeling (1983)
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She´s a maniac – Flash-dance
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Galantis - Runaway
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Much like when I reviewed Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man, I quickly fell in love with the gorillas that Dian Fossey describes in exquisite detail in her book Gorillas in the Mist. (You may have heard of it.) Dr. Fossey moved to the Virungas of Africa (Zaire, Uganda, and Rwanda) to study the mountain gorillas that lived there. That study ended up taking nearly 20 years. However, she wasn't only studying the habits of the gorillas but also the parasites, environment (rainfall), vegetation, and the other animals that lived there (elephants, buffalo, duiker). (Basically, whatever she and her team could study they did to increase their chances of getting more grant money and lengthening their stay.) One of the things that Fossey stressed was that it would take more than passive conservation (tourism) to keep the mountain gorillas alive and thriving. She found that active conservation was the only way to go which meant that she had to employ staff to track down poacher's lairs and destroy their supplies and traps. Basically, she was a bada$$ of the highest caliber and the surrounding villagers had a nickname for her (it wasn't sweet lady of the mountain either). She quickly earned a reputation for not backing down and for doing everything within her power to protect these creatures from imminent extinction (which is looking more and more likely). Between poachers, population encroachment, and decreasing territory for the different gorilla groups there were only 242 mountain gorillas left at the end of her nearly two decade study. There are even less now. Fossey's fervent desire was that governments and the people governed by them would want to conserve these animals because they lived in the area providing the only fresh water source for the region. However, deforestation to make way for increasing numbers of people and farms continued no matter what arguments she put forth. I had heard about this book and its movie adaptation before but it wasn't until I saw Ellen DeGeneres talking about it (on her birthday episode) that I decided to finally pick up the book. I am so glad that I did. Even if you only read the appendices (which are absolutely phenomenal) you'd learn so much about these amazing animals and the land they inhabit. You'd also bear witness to the dedication and passion which Fossey had for her research. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Gorillas in the Mist and afterward that you do further research into Fossey because it makes it all the more poignant and meaningful (at least it did for me). 10/10 ( )

Dian Fossey's account of her thirteen years among the Mountain gorillas whose range is limited to the six extinct volcanoes of the Virunga range, located in small portions of three countries: Zaire (Congo), Rwanda, and Uganda.

The largest of the living primates, the gorilla had never really been observed and studied closely. About 240 members of this subspecies survived at the time of her study. Leakey recognized that the groups were threatened with extinction in the same century they had first been scientifically observed.

Fossey corroborated, distinguished, corrected and detailed her own and others' observations, comparing them to work on other species. She ventilated the importance of females, largely overlooked by George Schaller, Leighton Wilkie, and other men for somewhat understandable reasons--they had less time, and a predisposition of the importance of the "dominant" male.

Leakey and Jane Goodall (Gombe Stream Research Center), showed her camp organization, data collecting techniques, and the comparative ethology of chimpanzees. [5] We see the proof in this book.

Having survived the wilds, the diseases and camp limitations, and the gorillas themselves, and having learned much about animal behavior and various means of communicating including fluency in Swahili, Fossey was murdered by humans in 1985.

A very interesting (if somewhat more scientific than I was expecting!) book about several groups of mountain gorillas studied by Dian Fossey in the 70s and 80s.

Prior to reading this book, I knew nothing about mountain gorillas or their habitat and had no particular interest in the subject. Despite that, this book more than held my attention.

Dian Fossey comes across as a very strong, opinionated, determined and brave woman, yet its easy to see how she could have easily made enemies. I was saddened to discover that she was murdered in Rwanda a few years after writing this book.