Fossey devoted almost 20 years to her studies before she was murdered in 1985. She developed close relationships with some animals, including these rescued orphans, named Coco and Pucker.

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas ... term study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. By this time, Leakey was very famous and hard to pin down ...

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas of Africa. She fought tirelessly to protect them from poachers, cattle herders, zoo kidnappers ...