• Dian Fossey (/daɪˈæn/ dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive...
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  • book of the same name by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes. It stars Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey and Bryan Brown as photographer...
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    The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (originally the Digit Fund) is a charity for the protection of endangered mountain gorillas. The Digit Fund...
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    Volcanoes National Park. It was founded by Dian Fossey on 24 September 1967 to study endangered mountain gorillas. Fossey located the camp in Rwanda's Virunga...
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  • called Leakey's Angels, is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study...
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  • American primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey, published in 1983. The book begins with Fossey's early career as she began working with naturalist...
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    and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of primatologist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and a young associate in Working Girl, both of...
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    organization, life history, and ecology. Dian Fossey began what would become an 18-year study in 1967. Fossey made new observations, completed the first...
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  • Dian is a given unisex name of: People: Dian Agus Prasetyo (born 1985), Indonesian footballer Dian Bachar (born 1970), American actor Dian Fossey (1932–1985)...
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    the erotic thriller Half Moon Street. Her next role was primatologist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist (1988), for which she won a Golden Globe Award...
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  • the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa is a 1987 biography of the conservationist Dian Fossey, who studied and lived among...
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  • Brigitte Fossey (born 1947), French actress Charles Fossey (1869–1946), French assyriologist Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American zoologist F. J. C. Hearnshaw...
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    war (Butynski et al. 2003). The Karisoke Research Center, founded by Dian Fossey to observe gorillas in their native habitat, is located between Mount...
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  • environmental and animal rights causes. He served as a board member of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the Ark Trust, which in 2002 became the Hollywood branch...
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    gorilla and the golden monkey, and was the base for the primatologist Dian Fossey. The park was first gazetted in 1925, as a small area bounded by Karisimbi...
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  • forts and medieval castles.[better source needed] Dian Fossey Craghoppers partnered with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, a charity that protects...
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  • from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2023. "Dian Fossey Biography". Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. Archived from the original on...
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    include: The interspecies friendship between zoologist Dian Fossey and a group of gorillas. Fossey developed relationships with the gorillas she studied...
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    evolution. He personally focused on three female researchers, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas, calling them "The Trimates." Each went on to become...
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  • studied by Dian Fossey, killed by poachers and buried near Fossey's grave Digit Fund, now the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, founded by Fossey to raise...
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  • 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2018 – via YouTube. "World Gorilla Day". Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Retrieved March 20, 2024. Moorwood, Victoria (September...
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  • gorillas. He directed the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda founded by Dian Fossey for two years, and is doing research on chimpanzees in a long term study...
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  • photographer and filmmaker known for his footage and photographs of Dian Fossey and mountain gorillas published in the January 1970 issue of National...
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    WIFE ELLEN DEGENERES WITH AMAZING BIRTHDAY GIFT TO DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND | Dian Fossey". Dian Fossey. February 1, 2018. Archived from the original on...
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  • years old a blackback male joined his troop. He was named Beetsme by Dian Fossey when she was asked by a visiting friend who he was and replied "Beats...
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    Dian Fossey's work conducted at the Karisoke Research station in Rwanda proved the possibility of habituation among the mountain gorillas. Fossey learned...
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    Karisimbi and Bisoke is the Karisoke Research Center, which was founded by Dian Fossey in order to observe the mountain gorillas living in this area. On February...
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    tapanuliensis) Gibbon (family: Hylobatidae) Study of apes Great ape language Dian Fossey Birutė Galdikas Jane Goodall Chimpanzee genome project Human Genome Project...
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    of Dian Fossey, and in the United States as Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa—an allusion to Fossey's own...
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    Community College District Policy No. 5400. "Dian Fossey - Biography". Helping people. Saving gorillas. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. Archived from...
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