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Dian Fossey

By kristytrujillo

  • Birth

  • San Jose State College

    Fossey graduated in 1954 at San Jose where she studied occupational therapy.

  • Africa

    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

  • Louis Leakey

    Louis Leakey
    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

  • Foundation

    Foundation
    Fossey established the Karisoke Research Foundation in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park to help the study of mountain gorillas

  • Degree

    Degree
    She earned her degree and later accepted a visiting associate professorship at Cornell University.

  • Gorillas in the Mist

    Gorillas in the Mist
    Fossey publised her book in 1983. where she describes her research with the gorillas

  • Death

    Fossey was found hacked to death at her Rwandan forrest camp