primatologist who died violent deaths
The woman who gave her life to save the gorillas. Dian Fossey told the world how mountain gorillas live, and fought tooth and nail to save them. It is now 30 years to the day since the mysterious death of Dian Fossey, the primatologist who transformed the way we see gorillas. Before Fossey's work, gorillas had an appalling reputation as violent brutes that would kill a human on sight. Fossey demolished this myth.