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Fossey graduated in 1954 at San Jose where she studied occupational therapy.
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Fossey became intersted in the life of Gorillas on her first trip to Africa. Her trip was paid for with her life savings and a bank loan
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Fossey caught up with Leaky in a lecture in Kentucky, where he invited her on a long term study on the endangered gorillas on Rwandan mountain forrest
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Fossey established the Karisoke Research Foundation in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park to help the study of mountain gorillas
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She earned her degree and later accepted a visiting associate professorship at Cornell University.
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Fossey publised her book in 1983. where she describes her research with the gorillas
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Fossey was found hacked to death at her Rwandan forrest camp
