Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: Jane Goodall, Robert Yerkes, Dian Fossey, William Charles Osman Hill, Donna Haraway, Frans de Waal, Birute Galdikas, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Linda Marie Fedigan, Henry McHenry, Ursula Cowgill, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Robin Dunbar, Marc van Roosmalen, John Napier, Leakey's Angels, Richard Wrangham, William M. Fields, Colin Groves, Daris Swindler, Vanessa Woods, Anne Zeller, Jan Moor-Jankowski, Dawn Prince-Hughes, Alejandro Estrada, Francine Neago, Yves Rumpler, Barbara Smuts, Agustin Fuentes, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Patricia Wright, Meredith Small, Craig Stanford, Alison Jolly, Thomas Defler, Clarence Ray Carpenter, Jordi Sabater Pi, Helder Queiroz, Geoffrey Bourne, Prudence Hero Napier, Carel van Schaik, Adolf Bernard Meyer, Christophe Boesch, Zena Tooze, Eugene Cussons, Carole C. Noon, Paul Garber, Angela Meder, Anne E. Russon, Frances J. White, Kinji Imanishi, Masao Kawai, Junichiro Itani. Excerpt: Dian Fossey (; 1932-1985) was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous anthropologist Louis Leakey. She was murdered in 1985; the case remains open. Called one of the foremost primatologists in the world while she was alive, Fossey, along with Jane Goodall and Birute Galdikas, was part of the so-called Leakey's Angels, a group of three prominent researchers on primates (Fossey on gorillas; Goodall on chimpanzees; and Galdikas on orangutans) sent by archaeologist Louis Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments. When her photograph, taken by Bob Campbell, appeared on the cover of National Geographic Magazine in January 1970, Fossey became an international celebrity, bringing massive publicity to her cause of saving the mountain gorilla from extinction, as well as convincing the general public that gorillas are not as fierce as they are sometimes depicted in movies and books. Photographs showing the gorilla "Peanuts" touching Fossey's hand depicted the first recorded peaceful contact between a human being and a wild gorilla. Her extraordinary rapport with animals and her background as an occupational therapist brushed away the Hollywood "King Kong" myth of an aggressive, savage beast. Fossey made discoveries about gorillas including how females transfer from group to group over the decades, gorilla vocalization, hierarchies and social relationships among groups, rare infanticide, gorilla diet, and how gorillas recycle nutrients. Fossey's research was funded by the Wilkie Foundation and the Leakey Foundation, with primary funding from the National Geographic Society. By 1980, Fossey who had obtained her PhD at Cambridge University in the UK was recognized as the world's leading authority on the physiology and behaviour of mountain gorillas, defining gorillas as being "dignified, highly social, ge