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Dian Fossey

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Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her death in 1985. [1]

126 relations: Academy Award for Best Actress, African Wildlife Foundation, Albertine Rift montane forests, Alex Shoumatoff, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series), Amy Vedder, Angela Meder, Anne Rasa, Anthropomorphism, Ape, Biological anthropology, Birutė Galdikas, Bob Campbell (photographer), Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Chain smoking, Chimpanzee, Christophe Boesch, College of Marin, Cologne Zoological Garden, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Daria Morgendorffer, Darwin College, Cambridge, David Attenborough, David P. Watts, Dian (given name), Diane (given name), Digit, Digit Fund, Douglas Adams, Economy of Rwanda, Ethology, Farley Mowat, Filmography of environmentalism, Fossey, Ganoderma applanatum, George Schaller, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Gorilla, Gorillas in popular culture, Gorillas in the Mist, Guy the Gorilla, Ian Redmond, Index of women scientists articles, Infamous Murders, International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Jan Moor-Jankowski, January 16, January 1932, Jim Ottaviani, Joan Root, ..., Karisoke Research Center, Lesley Stahl, Life on Earth (TV series), Linda Marie Fedigan, List of 20th-century outdoor proponents and outdoor educators, List of American scientists, List of anthropologists, List of assassinations, List of assassinations in fiction, List of biographical films, List of biologists, List of conservationists, List of Cornell University faculty, List of craters on Venus, List of female scientists in the 20th century, List of individual apes, List of Kappa Alpha Theta sisters, List of mammalogists, List of non-fiction works made into feature films, List of people assassinated in Africa, List of people from California, List of people from San Francisco, List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area, List of San Jose State University people, List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1985), List of University of Cambridge people, List of women anthropologists, Louis Leakey, Lowell High School (San Francisco), M. Yoganathan, Magdalena Bermejo, Mammals in culture, Meanings of minor planet names: 23001–24000, Michael (gorilla), Mount Bisoke, Mount Karisimbi, Mountain gorilla, Mountain Gorilla (TV series), National Geographic Society, Nicholas Humphrey, Orangutan, Orangutan Foundation International, Outline of zoology, Playhouse Presents, Primatology, Protais Zigiranyirazo, Prunus africana, Psychobitches, Richard Wrangham, Rita Miljo, Robert Hinde, Robert Nixon (filmmaker), Robinson McIlvaine, Rosamond Carr, September 1967, Sharon Pincott, Sigourney Weaver, The Lives of Animals, The Trimates, The Year of the Flood, Timeline of Rwandan history, United States Academic Decathlon topics, Virunga Mountains, Volcanoes National Park, Woman in the Mists, Women in science, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 1932, 1932 in science, 1932 in the United States, 1985, 1985 in Rwanda, 1985 in science, 1985 in the United States, 1992 in British television, 61st Academy Awards. Expand index (76 more) »

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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African Wildlife Foundation

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), founded in 1961 as the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation, is an international conservation organization that focuses on critically important landscapes in Africa.

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Albertine Rift montane forests

The Albertine Rift montane forests ecoregion, of the Tropical moist broadleaf forest Biome, are in the heart of Afromontane tropical central Africa.

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Alex Shoumatoff

Alexander "Alex" Shoumatoff (born November 4, 1946) is an American writer known for his literary journalism, nature and environmental writing, and books and magazine pieces about political and environmental situations and world affairs.

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series)

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis.

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Amy Vedder

Amy Vedder (born March 24, 1951 in Palatine Bridge, New York) is an ecologist and primatologist involved in conservation work with mountain gorillas.

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Angela Meder

Angela Meder is a German primatologist, conservationist, and specialist on gorillas.

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Anne Rasa

Olwen Anne Elisabeth Rasa (born 1940 in Wales) is a British Ethologist, who rendered outstanding services to the knowledge of the social behavior of Dwarf mongoose.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Ape

Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid primates native to Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Biological anthropology

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors.

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Birutė Galdikas

Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas, OC (born 10 May 1946), is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author.

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Bob Campbell (photographer)

Robert Ian Martin "Bob" Campbell (1930 – June 14, 2014) was an English wildlife photographer and filmmaker known for his footage and photographs of Dian Fossey and mountain gorillas published in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic.

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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a large primeval forest located in south-western Uganda in the Kanungu District.

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Chain smoking

Chain smoking is the practice of smoking several cigarettes in succession, sometimes using the ember of a finished cigarette to light the next.

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Chimpanzee

The taxonomical genus Pan (often referred to as chimpanzees or chimps) consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo.

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Christophe Boesch

Christophe Boesch (born 11 August 1951 in St. Gallen, Switzerland) is a primatologist who studies chimpanzees.

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College of Marin

The College of Marin is a community college in Marin County, California, U.S., with two campuses, one in Kentfield, and the second in Novato.

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Cologne Zoological Garden

The Aktiengesellschaft Cologne Zoological Garden is the zoo of Cologne, Germany.

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Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a non-profit zoo located near Powell in Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States, north of the city of Columbus.

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Daria Morgendorffer

Daria Morgendorffer is a fictional character from MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and its spin-off Daria.

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Darwin College, Cambridge

Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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David P. Watts

David Watts is a professor of anthropology at Yale University.

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Dian (given name)

Dian is a given unisex name of: People.

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Diane (given name)

Alternative spellings include Dianne, Dianna, Dian, Diahann, Dyan and Dyane.

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Digit

Digit may refer to.

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Digit Fund

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (originally the Digit Fund) is a charity for the protection of endangered mountain gorillas.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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Economy of Rwanda

Rwanda is a developing country with about 70% of the population engaged in agriculture.

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Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

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Farley Mowat

Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist.

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Filmography of environmentalism

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Fossey

Fossey may refer to.

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Ganoderma applanatum

Ganoderma applanatum (the artist's bracket, artist's conk or bear bread) is a bracket fungus with a cosmopolitan distribution.

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George Schaller

George Beals Schaller (born 1933) is a German-born American mammalogist, biologist, conservationist and author.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

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Gorilla

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Gorillas in popular culture

Representations of gorillas are common in popular culture in the Western world with the full range of electronic media having gorillas as mascots, gorillas behaving like humans, and humans behaving like gorillas.

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Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey.

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Guy the Gorilla

Guy the Gorilla (1946–1978) was a western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) who was London Zoo's famous resident, something of a celebrity in the 1960s–70s and was often profiled on children's TV shows and natural history productions.

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Ian Redmond

Ian Michael Redmond OBE FZS FLS (born 11 March 1954) is a tropical field biologist and conservationist.

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Index of women scientists articles

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Infamous Murders

Infamous Murders was a documentary television series shown on The History Channel in the U.S. and the U.K. The U.S. edition was narrated by Don Peoples.

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International Gorilla Conservation Programme

The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) was formed in 1991 to ensure that the critically endangered mountain gorillas are conserved in their habitat in the mountain forests of the Virunga Massif in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Jan Moor-Jankowski

Jan Moor-Jankowski (February 5, 1924 – August 27, 2005) was a Polish-born American primatologist and a fighter for Polish independence against Nazi Germany.

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January 16

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January 1932

The following events occurred in January 1932.

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Jim Ottaviani

Jim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about the history of science.

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Joan Root

Joan Root (18 January 1936 — 13 January 2006) was a Kenyan conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker.

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Karisoke Research Center

The Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park was founded by Dian Fossey on 24 September 1967, to study endangered mountain gorillas.

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Lesley Stahl

Lesley Rene Stahl (born December 16, 1941) is an American television journalist.

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Life on Earth (TV series)

Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a British television natural history series made by the BBC in association with Warner Bros. and Reiner Moritz Productions Productions.

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Linda Marie Fedigan

Linda Marie Fedigan, (born 1949) is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Primatology and Bioanthropology at the University of Calgary, Alberta.

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List of 20th-century outdoor proponents and outdoor educators

This is a list of prominent 20th-century wilderness explorers, naturalists, survival instructors, and exponents of outdoor education, adventure education, adventure therapy, wilderness therapy, etc.

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List of American scientists

This is a list of American scientists.

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List of anthropologists

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List of assassinations

This is a list of assassinations, sorted by location.

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List of assassinations in fiction

Assassinations have formed a major plot element in various works of fiction.

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List of biographical films

This is a list of biographical films.

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List of biologists

This is a list of notable biologists with a biography in Wikipedia.

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List of conservationists

This is a list of people who are, or have been, prominent conservationists.

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List of Cornell University faculty

This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

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List of craters on Venus

This is a list of craters on Venus, named by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.

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List of female scientists in the 20th century

This is a historical list, intended to deal with the time period when women working in science were rare.

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List of individual apes

This is a list of nonhuman apes of encyclopedic interest.

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List of Kappa Alpha Theta sisters

This is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Theta, a North American college sorority.

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List of mammalogists

This is a list of notable mammalogists, in alphabetical order by surname.

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List of non-fiction works made into feature films

This is a list of nonfiction works that have been made into feature films.

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List of people assassinated in Africa

This is an incomplete list of notable people who have been assassinated, or murdered in Africa.

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List of people from California

This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California.

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List of people from San Francisco

This is a list of notable people from San Francisco, California.

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List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area

This is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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List of San Jose State University people

The following is a list of notable persons (students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates) associated with San José State University, located in the American city of San Jose, California.

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List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1985)

The following is a list of episodes of the television series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which aired in 1985.

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List of University of Cambridge people

This is a list of University of Cambridge people, featuring members of the University of Cambridge segregated in accordance with their fields of achievement.

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List of women anthropologists

This is a list of women anthropologists.

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Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleontologist Mary Leakey.

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Lowell High School (San Francisco)

Lowell High School is an elite, co-educational, public magnet school in San Francisco, California with approximately 2,600 students.

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M. Yoganathan

Marimuthu Yoganathan popular as The Tree Man (born 1969) is an Indian environmental activist.

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Magdalena Bermejo

Magdalena (Magda) Bermejo (born) is a Spanish primatologist and world authority on the western lowland gorilla.

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Mammals in culture

Mammals have played a crucial role in creating and sustaining human culture.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 23001–24000

109 | 23109 Masayanagisawa || || Masahisa Yanagisawa (born 1955), planetary scientist at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo.

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Michael (gorilla)

Michael (March 17, 1973, Cameroon – April 19, 2000) was the first male 'talking' gorilla.

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Mount Bisoke

Mount Bisoke (also Visoke) is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.

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Mount Karisimbi

Mount Karisimbi is an inactive volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Mountain gorilla

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla.

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Mountain Gorilla (TV series)

Mountain Gorilla is a 2010 three-part television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit which features intimate footage of the last remaining wild population of the eponymous great ape.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English neuropsychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of primate intelligence and consciousness.

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Orangutan

The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are three extant species of great apes native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Orangutan Foundation International

Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California.

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Outline of zoology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to zoology: Zoology – study of animals.

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Playhouse Presents

Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts.

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Primatology

Primatology is the scientific study of primates.

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Protais Zigiranyirazo

Protais Zigiranyirazo (born 1938?) commonly known as Monsieur Zed ("Mr. Z"), is a Rwandan businessman and politician.

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Prunus africana

Prunus africana, the African cherry, has a wide distribution in Africa, occurring in montane regions of central and southern Africa and on the islands of Bioko, São-Tomé, and Grande Comore (Kalkman, 1965).

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Psychobitches

Psychobitches is a Sky Arts British television show directed by Jeremy Dyson.

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Richard Wrangham

Richard Walter Wrangham (born 1948) is a British primatologist.

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Rita Miljo

Rita Miljo (1931 Klaipėda, Lithuania - 27 July 2012 Phalaborwa district), was a renowned conservationist and animal rights pioneer noted for founding and managing the "Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education" (CARE) near Phalaborwa in South Africa.

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Robert Hinde

Robert Aubrey Hinde (26 October 1923 – 23 December 2016) was a British zoologist, the Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

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Robert Nixon (filmmaker)

Robert Henry Nixon (born 1954) is an American film director, writer and conservationist.

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Robinson McIlvaine

Robinson McIlvaine (17 July 1913 – 24 June 2001) was a career US diplomat who was President of the African Wildlife Foundation from 1978 to 1982.

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Rosamond Carr

Rosamond Carr (née Halsey) (August 28, 1912 – September 29, 2006) was an American humanitarian and author.

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September 1967

The following events occurred in September 1967.

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Sharon Pincott

Sharon Pincott, an Australian, is a specialist in the field of African elephant behaviour, and also a highly acclaimed author of five books.

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Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949), known professionally as Sigourney Weaver, is an American actress.

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The Lives of Animals

The Lives of Animals (1999) is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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The Trimates

The Trimates, sometimes called Leakey's Angels, is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study hominids in their natural environments.

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The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on September 22, 2009 in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom.

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Timeline of Rwandan history

This timeline of Rwandan history is a chronological list of major events related to the human inhabitants of Rwanda.

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United States Academic Decathlon topics

The United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) is an academic competition for high school students in the United States.

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Virunga Mountains

The Virunga Mountains (also known as Mufumbiro) are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Uganda.

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Volcanoes National Park

Volcanoes National Park (Parc National des Volcans Pariki y’Igihugu y’Ibirunga) lies in northwestern Rwanda and borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda.

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Woman in the Mists

Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa is a 1987 biography of the conservationist Dian Fossey, who studied and lived among the mountain gorillas of Rwanda.

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Women in science

Women have made significant contributions to science from the earliest times.

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus-Bertrand FRSGS (born 13 March 1946 in Paris) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.

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1932

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1932 in science

The year 1932 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1932 in the United States

Events from the year 1932 in the United States.

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1985

The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.

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1985 in Rwanda

The following lists events that happened during 1985 in Rwanda.

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1985 in science

The year 1985 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

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1985 in the United States

Events from the year 1985 in the United States.

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1992 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1992.

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61st Academy Awards

The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988, and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST/ 9:00 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey

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