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...Southern California told Chemical and Engineering News, in the past men (have) translated the experience of being male to their research." In the 1950s, for example, all-male teams of primate researchers observed male-male, male-female, and female-infant interactions. Not until scientists Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey appeared on the scene were female-female interactions even noted...
...survival of Rwanda's community of rare mountain gorillas -- made famous by Dian Fossey, whose story inspired the movie "Gorillas in the Mist" -- is threatened by starving civilians who are killing them for "bush meat," the World Society for the Protection of Animals warned today...
...with Rwanda's majority Hutu tribe. The marauding insurgents have threatened the lives of the gorillas (only 300 remain in the sanctuary) by driving out game wardens and destroying habitat. Moreover, they have ransacked a research center that was run for nearly two decades by the American naturalist Dian Fossey. Her pioneering work with the great apes was made famous in the film Guerrillas . . . make that Gorillas in the Mist...
...starters, take a charismatic scientist in west Africa, someone whose fictional career parallels Jane Goodall's or Dian Fossey's. Eugene Mallabar began by making scrupulous and original studies of chimpanzees during the 1950s and became a celebrity when his first best seller, The Peaceful Primate, was published. Documentaries, TV shows, citations and honorary degrees -- even a national park -- all followed, and Mallabar grew rich...
...personal, somewhat awkward but elucidating note: in 1984 Fossey wrote me that she had read my review of Gorillas in the Mist over the graves of Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho. "I could finally comprehend," she said, "that the gorilla individuals I had known and named over the years since 1967 might well become public figures, not on a rock-star scale, but renowned for their own worth, lamented for their loss." Postscript: Fossey is buried next to them...