Fossey, Dian
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| born on | 16 January 1932 at 11:17 (= 11:17 AM ) | ||||
| Place | San Francisco, California, 37n47, 122w25 | ||||
| Timezone | PST h8w (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   25°28'   05°34 Asc. 19°13'
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Biography
American zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist who undertook an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by anthropologist Louis Leakey.
Her 1983 book, Gorillas in the Mist, combines her scientific study of the gorillas at Karisoke Research Center with her own personal story. It was adapted into a 1988 film of the same name.
Called one of the foremost primatologists in the world while she was alive, Fossey, along with Jane Goodall and Birutė Galdikas, were the so-called Trimates, a group of three prominent researchers on primates (Fossey on gorillas; Goodall on common chimpanzees; and Galdikas on orangutans) sent by Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments.
In the early morning on 27 December 1985, Fossey was discovered murdered in the bedroom of her cabin located at the far edge of the camp in the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda. She was 53. The case still remains open.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Goodall, Jane (born 3 April 1934)
- role played of/by Weaver, Sigourney (born 8 October 1949). Notes: Weaver played Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist
Events
- Death by Homicide 26 December 1985 (Murdered, aged 53)
chart Placidus Equal_H. - Social : Great Publicity 23 September 1988 (Movie Gorillas in the Mist released)
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Source Notes
Birth certificate in hand from Viktor E.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Emphysema
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Abortions
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Passions : Criminal Victim : Homicide victim
- Vocation : Science : Anthropology
- Vocation : Science : Other Science (Mammologist)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- 1932 births
- Birthday 16 January
- Birthplace San Francisco, CA (US)
- Sun 25 Capricorn
- Moon 5 Taurus
- Asc 19 Aries
- 1985 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Emphysema
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Abortions
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Passions : Criminal Victim : Homicide victim
- Vocation : Science : Anthropology
- Vocation : Science : Other Science
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
