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	Virtual Exploration Society - Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey and the Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
		Dian Fossey was trained as an occupational therapist and found a job at the Kosair Children's Hospital in Kentucky.
		Fossey was in tears as she shot the beast to put it out of its misery.
	www.unmuseum.org /fossey.htm (2530 words)

	Dian Fossey - MSN Encarta
		Dian Fossey (1932-1985), American zoologist, whose field studies of wild gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) served to dispel many myths about the violent and aggressive nature of gorillas.
		Fossey was an astute and patient observer of gorilla behavior.
		Fossey received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Cambridge in 1974.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579762/Dian_Fossey.html (292 words)

	Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco, California in 1932.
		Fossey was able to learn a great deal about mountain gorillas during her stay there.
		On December 26, 1985, Dian Fossey was found murdered in her cabin.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/fossey_dian.html (403 words)

	Dian Fossey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dian became very close to her new friends and even wrote a book about what she had learned about gorilla families.
		Dian fought to protect the gorillas, even though she was threatened repeatedly by poachers.
		Dian refused to be scared and continued to study the mountain gorillas of Africa and publish all that she learned.
	www.whyville.net /smmk/whytimes/article?id=129 (247 words)

	Ada Byron (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fossey was quite famous for dispelling the myth that the wild gorillas in the countries of Zaire and Rwanda were aggressive and violent.
		When a wild gorilla approached Dian and touched her hand she was the first documented human to have animal initiated contact with a wild gorilla.
		Dian Fossey's great legacy is that mountain gorillas became protected by the government of Rwanda and the important work she began many years ago continues on today.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/dfossey.html (395 words)

	The Murder Of Dian Fossey - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		On the morning of December 27, 1985, Dian Fossey, the world famous primatologist who brought the Mountain Gorillas plight to the world's attention, was found in her mountain cabin by Wayne McGuire, one of her research workers.
		Dian was a white woman in predominately fl Rwanda, and the country was so overcrowded that the government began allotting land within the park boundaries to be used for cultivation.
		Zigiranyirazo murdered Dian because she had found out that he was the ringleader behind the poaching and endangered species smuggling ring, and she was going to turn him in to the authorities.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/The-Murder-Of-Dian-Fossey-96928.html (1921 words)

	Virtual Exploration Society - Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey and the Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes
		Dian Fossey was trained as an occupational therapist and found a job at the Kosair Children's Hospital in Kentucky.
		Fossey was in tears as she shot the beast to put it out of its misery.
	www.unmuseum.com /fossey.htm (2530 words)

	Women in science - Biology - Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey began her training as an occupational therapist, but she turned her attention to the study of primates in Africa after meeting anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey.
		Dian Fossey's most noted accomplishment is her book "Gorillas in the Mist", which was published in 1983.
		Fossey was known all round Rwanda as the "woman who lives alone in the forest." She was found murdered in her cabin in 1985; a murder that has yet to be solved.
	library.thinkquest.org /20117/fossey.html (224 words)

	Dian Fossey - SKYGAZE - Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		Running over to Dian Fossey's cabin, he finds her lifeless body sprawled next to the bed; her skull had been laid open by a diagonal cut from the forehead across the nose to the corner of her mouth.
		The cabin was in disarray, having been ransacked by the attacker or, perhaps, upset by Fossey in an attempt to ward off her assailant.
		Fossey's plan to become a veterinarian ended when she failed to master chemistry and physics at the University of California at Davis.
	www.skygaze.com /content/mysteries/DianFossey.shtml (1040 words)

	Murder in the Mist Solved?
		Fossey observed the gorillas for 18 years in the Ruhengeri province when she was brutally murdered in her hut on December 27, 1985.
		The saga of Dian Fossey’s murder may soon be resolved, but her work for the gorillas she fought so hard to preserve still goes on.
		Fossey was not sure of his gender at the time, and when asked about it she answered, ‘Beats me.’ This answer was subsequently transformed into a name for the gorilla-‘Beetsme.’ Fossey also noted that this gorilla had an ‘unusual tolerance of observers.’
	www.awionline.org /pubs/Quarterly/Fall2001/fossey.htm (653 words)

	Article
		Dian Fossey is known as the world’s leading authority on the physiology and behavior of mountain gorillas.
		Fossey was born in 1932 in San Francisco, California and endured a difficult childhood.
		Fossey was found murdered in her cabin on December 26, 1985.
	www.projectview.org /buffalozoo/DianeFosseyReading.htm (682 words)

	Wikinfo \| Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 - December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist interested in gorillas, completing an extended study of several gorilla groups, observing them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda.
		Her memoir "Gorillas in the Mist" was turned into a film Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey.
		Dian Fossey was found murdered in Rwanda in 1985, presumably by poachers.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dian_Fossey (226 words)

	Dian Fossey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dian Fossey strongly supported "active conservation," i.e., anti-poaching patrols and preservation of natural habitat (as opposed to "theoretical conservation" which includes the promotion of tourism).
		Dian Fossey is responsible for the revision of a European community project that converted parkland into pyrethrum farms.
		Fossey was found dead beside her bed and 2 meters away from the hole in the cabin that was cut on the day of her murder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dian_Fossey (2020 words)

	Edgar Alan Poe
		Dian was so determined that she tried to sneak back into the park and was arrested and taken to the capital.
		The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund was established in her name so that it will live on as a woman dedicated to a dream that endangered species will live on.
		Dian Fossey was one of the main reasons that the world is paying close attention to the mountain gorilla population.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/smithwick (481 words)

	Dian Fossey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fossey, Dian (1932-1985), American zoologist, whose field studies of wild gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda and the...
		Nevertheless, rapid population growth (at 3.7 percent a year), land shortages, decreasing soil fertility due to intensive cultivation methods, and erosion of the mountainous terrain caused crop...
		This article from National Geographic details the work of Dian Fossey, one of the first scientists to work directly with gorillas in Africa....
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Dian_Fossey.html (101 words)

	Dispatches from the Vanishing World.Com
		Dian's habituation of the gorillas was all the more remarkable because she did it without "provisioning"; Goodall had to bribe the chimps with bananas to get their cooperation.
		Dian used her prominence to dispel the myth that gorillas are vicious and dangerous-in fact they are among the gentlest of primates-and to bring their plight to the world's attention.
		Dian is lying on the floor with her head and a shoulder slumped on the bed.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/dianfossey/printerdianfossey.html (9907 words)

	Dian Fossey presented in Journal section
		Dr Fossey obtained her Ph.D. at Cambridge University and in 1980 accepted a position at Cornell University that enabled her to begin writing Gorillas in the Mist.
		Dian was buried next to Digit in the gorilla cemetery.
		Dian Fossey’s dream still lives on today in the work of the Atlanta-based Fossey Fund’s dedicated researchers and Rwandan staff at Karisoke.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/dian_fossey (624 words)

	Sigourney Weaver Announces Dian Fossey Legacy Campaign,Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Dr. Fossey's Death; ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Fossey Fund is currently conducting research to provide more precise estimates of this gorilla in the wild and to determine whether the recent civil wars in Congo have impacted their populations.
		The Atlanta-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitats in Africa, through research, conservation action, education and partnerships.
		Founded by Dr. Dian Fossey as the Digit Fund and renamed after her death, the Fossey Fund operates the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda, and maintains a staff of scientists, trackers and anti-poaching patrols in the Volcanoes National Park.
	press.arrivenet.com /politics/article.php/707722.html (1179 words)

	Dian-Fossey.com
		Contributions poured in from around the world, allowing Dr. Fossey to establish the Digit Fund (renamed the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in 1992) and dedicate the rest of her life to the protection of the gorillas.
		Dr Fossey obtained her Ph.D. at Cambridge University and in 1980 accepted a position at Cornell University that enabled her to begin writing Gorillas in the Mist.
		Fossey was murdered in her cabin at Karisoke on December 26, 1985.
	www.dian-fossey.com (522 words)

	Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey met famed primatologist Louis Leakey on a trip to Africa in 1963 and decided to study the Mountain Gorillas in the Virungas.
		After a short stay on the Zaire side was cut short by civil unrest, she moved across the border to Rwanda and established the Karisoke Research Station between Mounts Karisimbi and Visoke.
		The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is the renamed "Digit Fund" and carries on her work.
	www.informatics.org /gorilla/dian.html (198 words)

	Dian Fossey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dian Fossey's goal in life was to save the wondrous lives of the mountain gorillas.
		Fossey began carefully observing gorillas in Zaire, in 1967.
		Sadly, on December 26, 1985, Dian was found murdered in her cabin at Karisoke.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/fossey.htm (376 words)

	Fossey, Dian - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sigourney Weaver Announces Dian Fossey Legacy Campaign, Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Dr. Fossey's Death; Partnerships with Conservation International, Animal Planet Critical to Success.
		The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Reports Gorillas in Eastern Congo More Numerous Than Expected.
		Activist Sigourney Weaver to Announce Legacy Programs for Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund to Honor 20th Anniversary of Dr. Fossey's Death.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fossey.html (402 words)

	Amazon.com: Gorillas in the Mist: Books: Dian Fossey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dian Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong.
		Dian's work and memory will forever live on in the hearts of those who appreciate her determination, strength and dauntless courage in fighting for what she wholeheartedly believed in - the protection of the mountain gorillas.
		dian fossey's murderer was arrested in june 2001 and he as a government official called Protrais Zigiranyirazo allegedly involved in the poaching bussiness as well and sources say he did it because Dian new too much about his illigal activities and she was about to exposed him, he would have been disgraced.
	www.amazon.com /Gorillas-Mist-Dian-Fossey/dp/061808360X (2067 words)

	Dian Fossey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dian was born on January 16, 1932 in Fairfax, California, that's near San Francisco.
		Dian dedicated her life to the protection of the gorilla.
		In December 27, 1985 at the age of 54 Dian Fossey was murdered.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/fossey2.htm (399 words)

	Dian Fossey
		Dian Fossey had always been interested in animals, so she entered San Jose College as pre-vet major.
		Fossey got her PhD at Cambridge and in 1980 got a position at Cornell, which enabled her to write the famous Gorillas of the Mist.
		Dian goes down in the history books as a hero and a heretic but whether you agree with her strong political stand or not, her value to science and the conservation effort was incredible.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~sjberg/DianFossey.htm (451 words)

	Dian Fossey
		Dian was a second generation English Immigrant on her father's side.
		Dian's allergies were certainly not on the itinerary for the trip, so she suited her self with all the allergy medicines she could imagine.
		Dian Fossey was murdered by an unknown attacker in her cabin at the Karisoke Research Center in the Virunga Mountains in 1985.
	www.websterinsd.edu /~woolflm/dianfossey.html (1530 words)

	The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International: About Dian Fossey
		By 1966 Fossey had persuaded Dr. Leakey to let her carry out research on the mountain gorillas, and gained support from the National Geographic Society.
		By imitating gorilla behaviors and vocalizations, Fossey began to gain the gorillas’ trust, and gradually the gorillas accepted her.
		Dr Fossey obtained her Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 1976 and in 1980 accepted a position at Cornell University that enabled her to finish writing Gorillas in the Mist.
	www.gorillafund.org /dian_fossey (669 words)

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