A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 27, 1985, American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied mountain gorillas in Africa for nearly 20 years, ...
BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — Sept. 24 is observed as World Gorilla Day. It was launched in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Rwanda-based gorilla study center founded by ...
Three decades after the groundbreaking researcher was killed in Rwanda, the ape population is growing—but is under rising pressure. Fossey devoted almost 20 years to her studies before she was ...
Some are world famous — Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas and Dian Fossey, for example. Others are scientifically famous, such as Jeanne Altmann, Alison Jolly or Linda Fedigan. But all these women, and ...
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