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Dawn Prince-Hughes (born 1964 [1]) is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist. She is the author of several books, including Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and her memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, and she is the editor of the essay collection Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism .
Dian Fossey ( / daɪˈæn / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. 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. [1] She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. Gorillas in the Mist, a book ...
Gorillas in the Mist is a memoir by American primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey, published in 1983. [1] The book begins with Fossey's early career as she began working with naturalist Louis Leakey and spans thirteen years of Fossey's research into the behavior and biology of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. During this time Fossey lived among four families of gorillas in the Virunga ...
The Trimates, [1] [2] sometimes called Leakey's Angels, [3] is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, [4] and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, respectively.
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE ( / ˈɡʊdɔːl /; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), [3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. [4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.
Woman in 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 the mountain gorillas of Rwanda .
Gorillas in the Mist [a] is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based a 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 Bob Campbell. It tells the story of Fossey ...
Gigantopithecus ( / dʒaɪˌɡæntoʊpɪˈθikəs, ˈpɪθɪkəs, dʒɪ -/ jahy-gan-toh-pi-thee-kuhs, pith-i-kuhs, ji-; [2] lit. 'giant ape') is an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300-200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki.