Gorillas in the Mist

Name: Gorillas in the Mist
ISBN: 9780618083602

Dian Fossey

326 pages · about 5 hours
First published 1983
12 editions

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1 About this book

Describes four gorilla families living in the rain forests of the Virunga mountains of Rwanda during a fifteen-year case study.

Human-animal relationships
Psychology
Behavior
Gorilla
Mammals
Naturalists
Animal behavior

2 About Dian Fossey

1932–1985

Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey.

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