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Dian Fossey

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Dian Fossey was an American 1. zoology / zoologist who studied gorillas in Africa. Her research and life in the mountain forests of Rwanda made her 2. famous / fame. She wrote a book about her work, ‘Gorillas in the Mist’. A major Hollywood studio 3. repaid / paid her a million dollars for the movie rights. Her 4. brutal / brutality murder in 1985 had to be added to the film.

Fossey was born in 1932. She became interested in 5. animals / animal from a very early age and enrolled on a veterinary course. At university, she studied occupational 6. therapist / therapy, which would help her later research. She became interested in Africa in her late 7. twenty / twenties. She took 8. out / in a loan and went to Tanzania, where she met the man who would change her life, anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey.

She became an international celebrity in 1970 after 9. appeared / appearing on the cover of ‘National Geographic’ magazine. It brought huge publicity for her campaign to protect the mountain gorillas and save them from 10. extinction / extinguished.

Fossey was strongly 11. opposed / opposite to zoos.  In 1978, she tried to stop two young gorillas from 12. was / being taken from Rwanda to a zoo in Germany. Twenty adult gorillas were killed 13. during / while their capture. She also disagreed with “conservation tourism”, which disturbs the animals’ natural habitat. Many believe she was killed by 14. those / them who wanted to make big money from gorilla tourism.

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