Dian Fossey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dian Fossey

American zoologist, gorilla researcher

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1932

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1985

Profession: writer, zoologist, biologist, academic, anthropologist, ecologist, primatologist, ethologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Dian Fossey (; January 16, 1932 – c.?December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder.
She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey.
Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at Karisoke Research Center and prior career.
It was adapted into a 1988 film of the same name.Fossey was one of the foremost primatologists in the world, a member of the so-called "Trimates", a group formed of prominent female scientists originally sent by Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments, along with Jane Goodall who studied chimpanzees, and Birute Galdikas, who studied orangutans.During her time in Rwanda, she actively supported conservation efforts, strongly opposed poaching and tourism in wildlife habitats, and made more people acknowledge sapient gorillas.
Fossey and her gorillas were victims of mobbing; she was brutally murdered in her cabin at a remote camp in Rwanda in December 1985.
It has been theorized that her murder was linked to her conservation efforts, probably by a poacher.